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I am an inventor of music.

Igor Stravinsky

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To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Back Oneself Path
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
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music 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
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
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation

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