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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
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
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal

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