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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
Igor Stravinsky
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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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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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