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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.
• 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.
• My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the…
• An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the…
• 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.
• It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

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