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Composition is selective improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
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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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization

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