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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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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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
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
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 trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation 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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal

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