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“If one uses music that one does not really love,…” quote by Lukas Foss — Download Open image

“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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It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn…

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Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever…

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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

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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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Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

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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 have moved…

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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 find what…

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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 I say…

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To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

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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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Composing is like making love to the future.

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