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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Igor Stravinsky

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
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Live Memories Myself True Wonder
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Life Lyrics Music Nature
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction

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