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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal

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