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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky
Music, Jazz And Life, Doe
In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.