Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!
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.
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
Truth implies meaning.
Truth is a big concept.
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.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
In Missouri, it's a 5050 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.