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

Igor Stravinsky

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
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
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
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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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
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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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick

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

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