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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Igor Stravinsky

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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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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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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