Want Musician Writing Act Composer 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. - Lukas Foss
Idea In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. - Lukas Foss
Shakespeare Music 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. - Lukas Foss
Music Want Will Love 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. - Lukas Foss
Music Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy. - Lukas Foss
War World 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. - Lukas Foss
Artist 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. - Lukas Foss
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. - Jane Austen
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. - Michael Phelps