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

Igor Stravinsky

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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
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
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
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
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
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
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work

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