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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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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 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
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
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

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