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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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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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