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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

End Music Pieces Song
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 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
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
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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
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
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction

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