The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOne has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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I am an inventor of music.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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