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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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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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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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 am an inventor of music.
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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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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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