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

Igor Stravinsky

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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
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent

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