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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
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 more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand

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