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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 controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
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
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song

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