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

Igor Stravinsky

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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 is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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