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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song

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