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Lukas Foss has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
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To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
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Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others…
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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in…
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My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will…
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It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never…
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Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We…
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I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
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I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
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As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can…
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If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
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When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered…
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the…
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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach…
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