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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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 am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand

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