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

Igor Stravinsky

One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Distance God Music Separate
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Difference Enough Listening Music
I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Invention Music Myself
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Flow Music Order Structure Time
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Sea Sick
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Improve One Liner Selective
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Essential Man Meaning Unity
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

End Music Principle Reason Start

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