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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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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
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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 am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
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
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
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
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.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal

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