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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Igor Stravinsky

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Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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 take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
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
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
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom

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