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

Back Oneself Path
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song

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