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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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
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
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing

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