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

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
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
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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

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