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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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
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
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
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
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
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself

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