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Composers combine notes, that’s all.

Igor Stravinsky

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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
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
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
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
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work

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