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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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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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
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
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist

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