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

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces 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
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
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
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
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown

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