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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Igor Stravinsky

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
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
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
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
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

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