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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#better #building #church #decoration #god

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#always #aware #composer #conscious #his

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#gives #his #imitators #prestige #real

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#hear #i #like #music #piece

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#been #inner #me #performing #process

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#adventures #away #difference #fun #go

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#artist #classic #i #i am #say

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#go #grieving #had #her #i

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams