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I am an inventor of 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
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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 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
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
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
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
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing

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