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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

Igor Stravinsky

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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
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
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
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization

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