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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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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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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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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