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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Igor Stravinsky

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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start

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