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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder

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