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

Igor Stravinsky

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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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
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
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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 the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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 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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

General Love Music Teaching Trouble

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