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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

Wisdom

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Stravinsky is saying that his growth as a composer came mainly from making errors and chasing ideas that turned out to be wrong, rather than from simply learning from established sources of knowledge. He emphasizes that personal trial and error played a bigger role in his understanding than traditional teachings or wisdom.

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