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

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Source : Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

Igor Stravinsky

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“Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.”
“Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.”
“It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected.”
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”
“My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.”
“I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.”
“To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.”
“The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.”

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