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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Igor Stravinsky

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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
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
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
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
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick

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