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"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."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."
"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"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."
"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
"That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it."
"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it."
"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."
"Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original."
"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."
"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
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