One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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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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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.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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