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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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