"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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"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."
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"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it."
-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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"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."
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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
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