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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Igor Stravinsky

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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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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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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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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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