Quote by Igor Stravinsky
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore witho

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