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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.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
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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End Music Principle Reason Start
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
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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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Hurry Myself Time

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