Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYArt postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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What force is more potent than love?
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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