My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhy is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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?
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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