List of Lukas Foss Quotes

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.

Composing Is Like Making Love To The Future.

If One Uses Music That One Does Not Really Love, Then One Will Not Succeed In Making It One's Own.

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?

I Still Do Not Know Where The Notes Will Come From When I Accept A Commission For A New Work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.