A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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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.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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