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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#cannot #itself #kindle #long #may

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#been #inner #me #performing #process

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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