"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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"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.“
-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."
-Igor Stravinsky
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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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"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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"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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"I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest."
-Laura Riding
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"We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems."
-Jim Hunt
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"My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing."
-Alexandra Kerry
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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
-Roger Mudd
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"If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught."
-Alexandra Guarnaschelli
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"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection."
-Carol Gilligan
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