Lukas Foss Quotes
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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 you want to do; you will discover your next project.
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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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Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
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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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Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
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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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I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.