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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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Borrow One Liner Steal
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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 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 know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing

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