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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Igor Stravinsky

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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.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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 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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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

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