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- "A good composer does not imitate; he steals. "
- "A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and ..."
- "Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing ..."
- "Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out ..."
- "I am an inventor of music. "
- "I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can ..."
- "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits ..."
- "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. "
- "I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer ..."
- "In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more ..."
- "Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence ..."
- "It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to ..."
- "Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible ..."
- "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "
- "Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, ..."
- "My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone ..."
- "My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name ..."
- "My music is best understood by children and animals. "
- "One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a ..."
- "Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me ..."
- "Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. "
