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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

Igor Stravinsky

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Average Genius Steal
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Invention Music Name
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Feeling Generation Nature Way
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Master Music Song
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Life Lyrics Music Nature
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Man Music Present Realization
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Definite Music Point Succession
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Comment Music Pieces True
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Animal Artist
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Flow Music Order Structure Time

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

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