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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired. ↗

— Robert Strauss

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If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. ↗

— Robert Strauss

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. ↗

— 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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? ↗

— 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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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