A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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 more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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