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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
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
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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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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 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
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
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 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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
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
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

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