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Composers combine notes, that’s all.

Igor Stravinsky

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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution

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