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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing

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