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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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"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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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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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 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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"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
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"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."
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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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