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

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

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"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

- Igor Stravinsky

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"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

- Igor Stravinsky

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"Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven."

- Igor Stravinsky

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