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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
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.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
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 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
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
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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