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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Igor Stravinsky

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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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.
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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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