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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
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
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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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality

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