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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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