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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.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
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 knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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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Artist Music Myself Pieces
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 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
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
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening

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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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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