In The Nineteenth Century The More Grandiose

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.

Yes, Influences Are Enriching, And They Can Be Found In Every Work Of Art, Even The Most Original.

The Best Way To Investigate The Elusive Phenomenon Called The Creative Process May Well Be To Target All The Misconceptions, To Explain What The Creative Process Is Not.

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.

The Fact That Stravinsky Used The Classics As A Major Influence Is Obvious. What Is Interesting Is How He Used Them, How He Turned Bach Into Stravinsky.