List of Lukas Foss Quotes

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Lukas Foss
Total Quotes 32
Most artists have experienced the creative block. we get stuck in our work. we beat our head against the wall: nothing. sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
Wall Block Artist
Composing is like making love to the future.
Making Love Composing
If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
Doe Use Succeed
As i sit down and start to work, i often panic. i stare at the empty piece of music paper. how can i say that my piece will be ready for performance next january when i do not have a recipe for making it happen?
Pieces Paper Recipes
I still do not know where the notes will come from when i accept a commission for a new work.
New Work Accepting Notes
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.
Writing Years Lifetime
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.
Missing Elements Immersion
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.
Advice Over You Want
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.
Artist Play Way
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 been.
Creative Age Seven
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.
Silly Boys Play
When i went back to visit my native berlin after world war ii, i noticed that the only thing i really remembered from my childhood berlin days is the shoe store.
War Shoes Childhood
  • Born: August 15, 1922
  • Died: February 1, 2009
  • Occupation: Composer
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