If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own. Lukas Foss More Quotes by Lukas Foss More Quotes From Lukas Foss To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together. Lukas Foss dramatic together ideas To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. Lukas Foss contradictory quality genius Truth implies meaning. Lukas Foss Truth is a big concept. Lukas Foss concepts truth-is bigs Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. Lukas Foss influence found art 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 process is not. Lukas Foss target creative may In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. Lukas Foss inspiration ideas art 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 the artist made it his own. Lukas Foss artist play way 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 want to do; you will discover your next project. Lukas Foss over-you want advice It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music. Lukas Foss immersion elements missing 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 know how he did it. Lukas Foss lifetime writing years That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it. Lukas Foss know money artist work
