"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."

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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."

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"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."

"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."

"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."

"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."

"Composers are not all good conductors."

"Composers are always going back to the past."

"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."

"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."

"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."

Explore more quotes by Pablo Casals

"I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true."

"Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?"

"You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children."

"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."

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