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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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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may…
— Piers Anthony
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics…
— Oscar Wilde
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
— John Stuart Mill
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Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one…
— Unknown Author
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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's…
— Fred Savage
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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
— Richard Attenborough
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Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you
— Nas
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The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays,…
— Michael York
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Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the…
— Liev Schreiber
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They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
— Douglas Gresham
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