A composer is or isn't; he cannot learn to acquire the gift that makes him one, and whether he has it or not, in either case, he will not need anything I can tell him now.
Rite of Spring, modernist composer
Advice for young composers, from 'Conversations with Robert Craft'.
1950s (approximate)
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