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

Igor Stravinsky

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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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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 never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
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
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
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
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
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself

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