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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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 performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
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
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
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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