“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.”
— Igor Stravinsky
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“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”
— Igor Stravinsky
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Category: respect
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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.”
— Igor Stravinsky
Author: Igor Stravinsky
Category: wisdom
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“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”
— Igor Stravinsky
Author: Igor Stravinsky
Category: music
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“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
— Igor Stravinsky
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“The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.”
— Igor Stravinsky
Author: Igor Stravinsky
Category: music
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“I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.”
— Igor Stravinsky
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“Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?”
— Igor Stravinsky
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“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
— Igor Stravinsky
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“Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?”
— Igor Stravinsky
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