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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

Igor Stravinsky

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
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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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist

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