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Igor Stravinsky

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.

Igor Stravinsky

Knowledge

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Stravinsky is saying that his growth as a composer came mostly from making errors and following incorrect ideas rather than from learning directly from experts or established knowledge. He emphasizes that personal trial and error played a bigger role in his development than simply absorbing wisdom from others.

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