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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

Igor Stravinsky

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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
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
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
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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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand

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