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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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