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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

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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
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
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
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
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
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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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
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
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
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin

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