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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
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
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong

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