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I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

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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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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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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

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

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