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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
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
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner

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