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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Igor Stravinsky

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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 is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature

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