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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If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.Lukas Foss
Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
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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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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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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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