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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick

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