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Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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.
Igor Stravinsky



Biography
Author Profession: Composer
Nationality: Russian
Born: June 17, 1882
Died: April 6, 1971

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

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky

I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky

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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Am, Animal, Animals, Anymore, Been, Cross, Dare, Die, Eminence, Family, Go, Hardly, I Am, Idiot, Known, Member, Plague, Royal, Stared, Stares, Street, Wherever, Without, Zoo
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Am, Animal, Been, Cross, Dare, Die, Eminence, Family, Go, Hardly, Idiot, Known, Member, Plague, Royal, Street, stared, Wherever, Without
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