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What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Comment Music Pieces True
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 constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal

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