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Revolution means turning the wheel.

Igor Stravinsky

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
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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 more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction

Revolution means turning the wheel.

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