If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
Lukas FossSince 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.
Lukas FossBoulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.
Lukas FossMozart 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.
Lukas Foss