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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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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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
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

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