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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

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Back Oneself Path
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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