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

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
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
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
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
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation

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