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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
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 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
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention

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