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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
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
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
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
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
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
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
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand

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