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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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
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
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder

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