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"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."

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

"For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself."

"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."

"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."

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

"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."

"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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