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

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
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
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
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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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound

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