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Igor Stravinsky has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
• A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
• It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves…
• Composition is selective improvisation.
• I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had…
• The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the…
• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building…
• My music is best understood by children and animals.

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