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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
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
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective

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