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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Master Music Song
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

End Music Pieces Song
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Man Music Present Realization
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Chaos One Liner
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

One Liner Revolution
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Borrow One Liner Steal

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

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