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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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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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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
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
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective

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