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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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I live neither in the past nor in the future. 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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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.
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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An audience is an abstraction it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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