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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
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
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
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality

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