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Lukas Foss

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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


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Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.


— Lukas Foss


#artists #beat #because #block #creative

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.


— Lukas Foss


#be original #develops #last #most #original

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.


— Lukas Foss


#his #how #just #know #lifetime

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.


— Lukas Foss


#ask #discover #find #frequently #immerse

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


#been #composing #creative #creative process #elusive

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


#best way #called #creative #creative process #elusive

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


#classics #fact #how #influence #interesting

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.


— Lukas Foss


#answered #ask #cannot #come #creative






About Lukas Foss






Did you know about Lukas Foss?

From 1971-1988 he was Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic (formerly Brooklyn Philharmonia). From 1981 to 1986 he was conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Isabelle Vengerova (piano) Rosario Scalero (composition) and Fritz Reiner (conducting).

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