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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
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
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention

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