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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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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.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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