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

Igor Stravinsky

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
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
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere

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