"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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"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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"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."

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

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

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"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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"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."

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"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love."

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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."

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