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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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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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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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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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