"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."

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Source : In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1

Igor Stravinsky

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“Actors are always looking for new territory, and playing an African figure would be really a great symbol for me because of my Senegalese roots. It would make my parents proud, so of course I'd do it.”
“My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”

Source : Ted Kennedy's eulogy for Robert Kennedy, St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, www.nydailynews.com. August 26, 2009.
“In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.”
“I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.”
“How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.”
“The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.”
“People, who live below their means, save for a rainy day - the price is a cheap life. There are a lot of people who have a lot of money; but at the end of the process, they are still cheap; so they have made money their God.”
“Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.”

Source : Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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