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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 real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name

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