Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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What force is more potent than love?
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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