A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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I am an inventor of music.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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