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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
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
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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
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
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner

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