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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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Creation Invention Music Name
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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