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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
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
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time

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