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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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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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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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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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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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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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
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