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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Igor Stravinsky

It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Feeling Generation Nature Way
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Music Myself Pieces
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
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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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Life Lyrics Music Nature
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

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