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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
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
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution

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