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To continue in one path is to go backward.

Igor Stravinsky

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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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 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
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
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
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
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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
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

To continue in one path is to go backward.

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