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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Igor Stravinsky

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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note 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.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction

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