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| 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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| My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey. |
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| My music is best understood by children and animals. |
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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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| 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 Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. |
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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 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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| 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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| 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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| To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. |
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| Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. |
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| What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. |
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| 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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