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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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 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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective

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