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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way

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