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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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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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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
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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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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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Essential Man Meaning Unity
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Chaos One Liner
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Forget Music Sound
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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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Describe Improvisation One Liner

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