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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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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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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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 have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
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
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service

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