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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
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
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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

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