Can you complete the famous quote from each composer?

We've gathered some of our favourite quotes from Classical composers, but can you fill the blank? Take our quiz and feel inspired!

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On May 16, 2017

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Claude Debussy: "Works of ____ make rules; rules do not make works of ____."

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Leonard Bernstein: "To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough ____."

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Bela Bartok: "Competitions are for ____, not artists."

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Igor Stravinsky: "Lesser artists borrow, great artists ____."

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Edward Elgar: "I always said ____ was against art and I still believe it."

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Johannes Brahms: "Without ____, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

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Joseph Haydn: "There was no one near to ____ me, so I was forced to become original."

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J.S. Bach: "I was obliged to be ____. Whoever is equally ____ will succeed equally well."

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Erik Satie: "The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the ____."

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Robert Schumann: "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the ____ of the artist."

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Dmitri Shostakovich: "A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not ____ with his previous one."

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John Cage: "I can't understand why people are ____ of new ideas. I'm ____ of the old ones."

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: "I'm ____. I like invention, I like discovery."

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Giacomo Puccini: "____ is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements."

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Richard Wagner: "____ creates reality."

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