I am an inventor of music.

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  Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

• Igor Stravinsky:

  In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

• Igor Stravinsky:

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

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