I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Igor Stravinsky, (Jun 17 1882-1971), Russian composer; He greatly influenced modern music through his ballets, The Firebird, 1910 and The Rite of Spring, 1912.