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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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"Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing."
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"When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution."
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"Focus is where you fail or succeed."
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"But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all-but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now-this very instant-your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man-and that this is certain, certain!"
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"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."
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"Execution is something, but timing is everything."
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"There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague."
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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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"A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never."
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"I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God."
Life
"My music is best understood by children and animals."
Music
"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."
Work
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
Work
"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators."
Artist
"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."
Genius
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
Music
"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"
Love
"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
Love
"I am an inventor of music."
Music
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