Lukas Foss Quotes

• 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

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

  Lukas Foss

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

  Lukas Foss

• 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

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

  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.

  Lukas Foss

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

  Lukas Foss

• 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

• 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?

  Lukas Foss

• 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.

  Lukas Foss

• Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

  Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss (31)

Birth:	15th August, 1922
Death:	1st February, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Pianist, Music Conductor

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