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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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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
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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
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
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand

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