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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
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
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
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
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
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 trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization

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