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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

Igor Stravinsky

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Average Genius Steal
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Comment Music Pieces True
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Burn Money Worth
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
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

Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Confusion Imagination Invention
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Challenge Development Performance Threat
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

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

Master Music Song
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Man Music Present Realization
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
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
Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Man Music Time

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

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