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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Hurry Myself Time
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
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
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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 principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music 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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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

Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal

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