An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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