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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
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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Feeling Generation Nature Way
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle

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