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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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Truth
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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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Family
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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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Grandparents
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. – Paracelsus

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Music

Ive programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And thats the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come – you know, the stories and things like that. – R. Kelly

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Music

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but thats why that old music feels so good to me. – Christina Aguilera

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Music

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. Im not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. – Pete Townshend

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Music

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. – Mark Twain

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It didnt even occur to me that Im the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. – David Byrne

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At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. – Joseph Rotblat

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