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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

Igor Stravinsky

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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
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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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand

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