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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

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
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
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
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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 gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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
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
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time

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