"Good composers don't borrow, they steal"

-- Igor Stravinsky

#Stealing Quotes #Composer Quotes

“Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.”
“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.”
“There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.”
“The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.”
“My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.”

Source : Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc
“I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.”
“If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.”
“Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.”

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