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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Artist Music Myself Pieces
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom

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