If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.