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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Igor Stravinsky

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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
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
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
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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
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

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