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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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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 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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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 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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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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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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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 knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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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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