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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Igor Stravinsky

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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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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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I am an inventor of music.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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