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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Average Genius Steal
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music 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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
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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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong

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