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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Igor Stravinsky

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I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
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
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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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
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
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True

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