I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mis…

“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 · Knowledge

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Igor Stravinsky

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Life

Igor Stravinsky

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Family

Igor Stravinsky

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

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Igor Stravinsky

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.

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