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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
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
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
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
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
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 force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path

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