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Conductor Quotes by Igor Stravinsky
- An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
- Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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