An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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