Forget Quote by Pablo Casals

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

— Leonard Bernstein

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

— Igor Stravinsky

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind…

— Austin Kleon

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

— Buddy Rich

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style…

— Tom Lehrer

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

— Sid Bernstein

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

— Igor Stravinsky

“The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

— Sun Ra

“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.”

— Michael P. Naughton

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs -…

— Tony Bennett