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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Control Freedom Limitation
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
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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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
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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Essential Man Meaning Unity
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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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