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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Igor Stravinsky

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself

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