A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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