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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Igor Stravinsky

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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
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
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand

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