A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYHurry? I have no time to hurry.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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