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Lukas Foss

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."

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Donna Grant

"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."

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Donna Grant

"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."

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Donna Grant

"Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity."

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Donna Grant

"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

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Donna Grant

"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."

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Donna Grant

"Mothers are the necessity of invention."

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Donna Grant

"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."

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Donna Grant

"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."

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Lukas Foss
"Truth is a big concept."

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Lukas Foss
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."

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Lukas Foss
"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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Lukas Foss
"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."

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Lukas Foss
"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."

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Lukas Foss
"To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together."

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Lukas Foss
"Truth implies meaning."

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Lukas Foss
"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."

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Lukas Foss
"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."

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Lukas Foss
"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."

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