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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Igor Stravinsky

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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick

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