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Quote by Igor Stravinsky
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are

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

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Im really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think Im an introvert, or quiet and moody. Ive even heard some people say that theres a certain mystery or darkness about me. Im not that way. Im just really into what I do. – Faith Evans

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