A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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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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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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