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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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