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My music is best understood by children and animals.

— Igor Stravinsky

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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.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

Themes and Conclusions (1982)

Composers combine notes, that's all.

Themes and Conclusions (1982)

The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co-ordination between man [sic] and time.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

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