Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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