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Igor Stravinsky

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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
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
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste

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