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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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

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