"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
-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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"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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"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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"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"
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"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it."
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"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."
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-Isaac Asimov
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
-Plato
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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