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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (sometimes spelled Strawinsky or StravinskiiRussian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, transliterated: Igorʹ Fëdorovič Stravinskij6 April 1971) was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist and conductor.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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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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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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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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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.
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