Author: Lukas Foss

Quotes

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

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

- Lukas Foss

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

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

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

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

- Lukas Foss

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.

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

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.

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

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

- Lukas Foss

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.

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.

- Lukas Foss

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.

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

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

- Lukas Foss

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