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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Academism results when the reasons for the rule change, but not the rule.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Vivaldi is greatly overrated — a dull fellow who could compose the same form so many times over.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Far from implying the repetition of what has been, tradition presupposes the reality of what endures.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all…music expresses itself.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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.
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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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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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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
June 17, 1882
Died:
April 6, 1971
(aged 88)
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