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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

Igor Stravinsky

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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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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Feeling Generation Nature Way
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
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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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent

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