We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
Good composers don't borrow, they steal
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.