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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Igor Stravinsky

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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
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
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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
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

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