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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.

Igor Stravinsky

Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
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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Essential Man Meaning Unity
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
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
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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
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 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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction

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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