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Revolution means turning the wheel.

Igor Stravinsky

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
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Essential Man Meaning Unity
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
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence

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