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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

Igor Stravinsky

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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
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 Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown

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