A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic 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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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