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Lukas Foss

"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."

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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."

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"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."

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"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."

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"I always saw myself as a multi media artist."

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Amber Hurdle

"I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer."

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"I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version."

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"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."

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"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."

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"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."

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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."
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"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
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"Truth is a big concept."
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"It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music."
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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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"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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