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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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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
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
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
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat

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