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"Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original."
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"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
"I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work."
Work
"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."
Time
"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."
Music
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
Music
"Truth is a big concept."
Truth
"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
Art
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
Invention
"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."
Age
"To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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Personal Development
"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development
"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline."
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Personal Development
"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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Personal Development
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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