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"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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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
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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."
"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
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