Lukas Foss

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

— Lukas Foss

#feel #feel good #good #great #great music

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

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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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