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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction

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