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Igor Stravinsky

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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Igor Stravinsky

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. www.english-slang.com

second childhood

[second childhood] {n. phr.} Senility; dotage. * /"Grandpa is in his second childhood; we must make allowances for him at the dinner table," my mother said, as Grandpa dropped food […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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. www.english-slang.com

Igor Stravinsky

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. www.english-slang.com

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