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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 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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It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. – 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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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. – Leonard Bernstein

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Honestly, I dont listen to nobody elses music but my own. Its kind of like sports to me. You dont see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game – he just works on his own game. And thats what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things. – Lil Wayne

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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. – David Bowie

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Ive never intended to be controversial, but its very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

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