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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
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
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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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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