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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

Igor Stravinsky

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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
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
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

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