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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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Myself Sea Sick
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
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
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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