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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
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
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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
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
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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