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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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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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Challenge Development Performance Threat
What force is more potent than love?
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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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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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