A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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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 haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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