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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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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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner

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