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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Igor Stravinsky

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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Improve One Liner Selective
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
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
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Essential Expression Music Nature
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand

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