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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
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
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
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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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
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
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song

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