"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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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."

David Del Tredici, American Composer

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"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."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

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"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."

George Crumb, American Composer

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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."

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"Composers are always going back to the past."

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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."

Jascha Heifetz, American Musician

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"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."

Johannes Brahms, German Composer

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"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"

J. J. Johnson, American Musician

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

Pablo Casals, Spanish Musician

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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

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"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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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

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"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."

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"The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper."

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"We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree."

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

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"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."

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"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"

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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

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