An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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 childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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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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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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