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Composition is selective improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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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
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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