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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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