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

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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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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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I never understood the need for a live audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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 sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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