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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

Igor Stravinsky

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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
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
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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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction

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