I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOne has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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