Johannes Rau Quotes

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?
Johannes Rau

Question, Fair, Actually

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
Johannes Rau

Work, Today, Creative

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.
Johannes Rau

Good, Interests, Enforcing

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.
Johannes Rau

Music, Education, Society

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
Johannes Rau

Interest, Copyright, Asserting

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
Johannes Rau

Education, Training, Reasons

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.
Johannes Rau

Understand, Here, Progress

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.
Johannes Rau

Success, Joy, Creativity

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Statesman

Born: January 16, 1931

Died: January 27, 2006

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