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Lukas Foss

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Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.


— Lukas Foss


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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.


— Lukas Foss


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Any creator owes a debt to past creation.


— Lukas Foss


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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.


— Lukas Foss


#art #both #dare #emotion #happen

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.


— Lukas Foss


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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


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If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.


— Lukas Foss


#love #making #music #own #really

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.


— Lukas Foss


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It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.


— Lukas Foss


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There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.


— Lukas Foss


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About Lukas Foss






Did you know about Lukas Foss?

From 1971-1988 he was Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic (formerly Brooklyn Philharmonia). From 1981 to 1986 he was conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Isabelle Vengerova (piano) Rosario Scalero (composition) and Fritz Reiner (conducting).

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