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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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
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
What force is more potent than love?
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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