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

Igor Stravinsky

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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time

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