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

Igor Stravinsky

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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 constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Cultural Familiar Unknown
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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 more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation

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