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Revolution means turning the wheel.

Igor Stravinsky

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
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.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature

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