Quote by Igor Stravinsky
Conductors careers are made for the most part with Romantic music.

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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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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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

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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebodys piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. – Igor Stravinsky

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Im very romantic, Im extremely romantic. I date my wife. – Alice Cooper

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Moonstruck… was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. – Norman Jewison

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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that werent relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. – Walter Isaacson

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I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love. – Nick Carter

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