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Composition is frozen improvisation.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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