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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
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
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity

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