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Composition is frozen improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
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
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick

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