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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
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
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name

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