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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
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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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
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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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
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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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
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
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work

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