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"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"Schizophrenia beats dining alone"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"I am no more humble than my talents require"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"There is nothing is 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"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"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"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"The century of airplanes has a right to its own music"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"In opera, there is always too much singing"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"Extreme complication is contrary to art"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"My music is best understood by children and animals"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"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"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"I am an inventor of music"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"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"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"What force is more potent than love?"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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