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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

Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
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
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
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path

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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