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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Igor Stravinsky

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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What force is more potent than love?
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