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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
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
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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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End Music Principle Reason Start
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time

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