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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Chaos One Liner
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame 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
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
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

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