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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky

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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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