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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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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
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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