Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
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A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?
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Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
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We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million or 15 million. You just don't see us.
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Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
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All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
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I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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