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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

~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.

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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

~Igor Stravinsky

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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.

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I am an inventor of music.

~Igor Stravinsky

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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

~Igor Stravinsky

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

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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Composer

Born: June 17th, 1882

Died: April 6th, 1971

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