"Anybody can put things together that belong together.……" — Lukas Foss
"Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved."
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Lukas Foss
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32 Quotes by Lukas Foss
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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…
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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.…
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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is…
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My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and…
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It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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