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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick

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