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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

Igor Stravinsky

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
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
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

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

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