Lukas Foss Quotes

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• Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
• To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
• Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in.…
• I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how…
• My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you…
• It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to…
• Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not…
• I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
• I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
• As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that…
• If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
• When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood…
• It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
• Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
• Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or…
• In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
• The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative…
• Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.
• Truth is a big concept.
• Truth implies meaning.

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