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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
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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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong

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