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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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