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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization

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