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Composition is frozen improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
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
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
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
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
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
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
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong

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