Quotes by Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

Creation

Debt

Past

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.

Boys

Play

Silly

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

Paper

Pieces

Recipes

Boulez’s only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It’s a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.

Men

Sex

Thinking

Composing is like making love to the future.

Composing

Making Love

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

Doe

Feel Good

Mean

I don’t dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Art

Emotion

Order

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

Accepting

New Work

Notes

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.

Artist

Play

Way

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

Doe

Succeed

Use

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Facts

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Found

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Quotes by Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

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.

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

Composing is like making love to the future.

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

I don’t dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

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

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.

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

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