A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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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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I am an inventor of music.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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