Quotes Lukas Foss

Any creator owes a debt to past creation....

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put...

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at t...

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like...

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means someth...

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it tak...

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I ac...

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influen...

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one wi...

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiratio...

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents...

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performanc...

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stu...

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but origin...

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it ...

My students frequently ask what their next project should be...

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When s...

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped ...

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a th...

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called th...

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a pro...

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influe...

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ours...

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adven...

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most...