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

Igor Stravinsky

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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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent

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