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|---|---|---|---|
| Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law |  |
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302 |
| Music is the silence between the notes |  |
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294 |
| Art is the most beautiful of all lies | |
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290 |
| Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light | |
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287 |
| The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew | |
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286 |
| In opera, there is always too much singing |  |
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284 |
| The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen | |
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274 |
| Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art | |
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265 |
| How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling | |
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260 |
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| First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers | |
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257 |
| I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it | |
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245 |
| Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part | |
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242 |
| Extreme complication is contrary to art | |
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240 |
| Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory | |
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227 |
| People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? | |
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223 |
| I confess that I am no longer thinking in musical terms, or at least not much, even though I believe with all my heart that music remains for all time the finest means of expression we have | |
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218 |
| Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes | |
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218 |
| Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear | |
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211 |
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| There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature | |
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207 |
| Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture - a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is | |
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203 |
| The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ | |
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197 |
| I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child | |
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196 |
| The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams | |
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192 |
| A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn | |
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182 |
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