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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. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#creative #creative act #down #know #letter

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#combined #dramatic #else #ideas #me

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man. ↗

— Sam Walter Foss

#house #live #man #me #road

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster. ↗

— Vito Fossella

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We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#clearly #ensure #federal #federal government #fundamental