Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.