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Igor Stravinsky Quote: “An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.”

51. “An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.”

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

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”

53. “One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “To continue in one path is to go backward.”

54. “To continue in one path is to go backward.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “There is no beauty in Music itself, the beauty is within the listener.”

55. “There is no beauty in Music itself, the beauty is within the listener.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.”

56. “The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.”

57. “We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.”

58. “Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.”

59. “Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.”

60. “Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the ‘ins’ and the ‘outs’ change places with the speed of mach 3.”

61. “Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the ‘ins’ and the ‘outs’ change places with the speed of mach 3.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.”

62. “Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.”

63. “We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.”

65. “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

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.”

66. “All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.”

67. “I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.”

68. “The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.”

69. “A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.”

70. “We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.”

71. “Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.”

72. “I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.”

73. “The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “I am an inventor of music.”

74. “I am an inventor of music.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.”

75. “A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.”

76. “The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.”

77. “The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “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.”

78. “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.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.”

79. “When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.”

80. “I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.”

81. “Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.”

— Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Quote: “The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.”

82. “The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.”

— Igor Stravinsky

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