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

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
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
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
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention

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