1. In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of (Robert Schumann)2. Competitions are for horses, not for artists. (Bela Bartok)
3. Works of art make rules. But rules do not make works of art. (Claude Debussy)
4. What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
5. Imagination creates reality. (Richard Wagner)
6. Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. (Igor Stravinsky)
7. Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take. (Edvard Grieg)
8. What is best in music is not to be found within the notes. (Gustav Mahler)
9. There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original. (Joseph Haydn)
10.There is nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. (Johann Sebastian Bach)
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