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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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