A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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