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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

Igor Stravinsky

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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
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
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
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
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
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
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

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