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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?

Igor Stravinsky

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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
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
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
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence

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