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

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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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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