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I am an inventor of music.

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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