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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky

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
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
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

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