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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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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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