Lukas Foss quotes - page 2

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. (Lukas Foss)
If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own. View quote
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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 notes. We literally do not know how he did it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work. View quote
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For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself. View quote
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