Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.