Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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