The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
Igor StravinskyWhen I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.
Igor Stravinsky