Classic Music Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

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• It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
• 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…
• A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
• 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.
• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
• The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy…
• To continue in one path is to go backward.
• Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
• One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
• The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

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