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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 more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Forget Music Sound
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

One Liner Revolution
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Chaos One Liner
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Alone Essence Love Success
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Borrow One Liner Steal
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Life Lyrics Music Nature
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Abstraction Audience Person Taste
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

End Music Pieces Song
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Himself Imitation Reality

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