A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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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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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I am an inventor of music.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY