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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner

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