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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction

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