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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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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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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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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