The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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