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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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 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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An audience is an abstraction it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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