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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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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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal

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