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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 frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
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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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
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
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
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 trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession

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