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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/i-wonder-if-memory-is-true-and-i-know-that-it-cannot-be-but-that-one/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

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## More by Igor Stravinsky

> [Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/why-is-it-that-whenever-i-hear-a-piece-of-music-i-don-t-like-it-s/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/the-trouble-with-music-appreciation-in-general-is-that-people-are/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/i-remember-being-handed-a-score-composed-by-mozart-at-the-age-of/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/we-can-neither-put-back-the-clock-nor-slow-down-our-forward-speed-and/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/it-is-the-transcendent-or-abstract-or-self-contained-nature-of-music/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [Composition is frozen improvisation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/composition-is-frozen-improvisation/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/money-may-kindle-but-it-cannot-by-itself-and-for-very-long-burn/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/one-has-a-nose-the-nose-scents-and-it-chooses-an-artist-is-simply-a/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/music-is-the-sole-domain-in-which-man-realizes-the-present/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/one-s-belief-that-one-is-sincere-is-not-so-dangerous-as-one-s/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/a-composer-is-not-only-an-architect-but-also-an-inventor-and-he/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/harpists-spend-90-percent-of-their-lives-tuning-their-harps-and-10/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/just-as-appetite-comes-by-eating-so-work-brings-inspiration-if/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/my-childhood-was-a-period-of-waiting-for-the-moment-when-i-could-send/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

> [Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/look-for-the-music-on-all-things-and-life-will-be-a-symphony-of-joy/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

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