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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
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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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown

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