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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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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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