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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
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
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation

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