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

Igor Stravinsky

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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 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
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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Creation Distance God Music Separate
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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

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