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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
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 I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity

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