A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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