My Students Frequently Ask What Their Next

To Come To Grips With Creativity, I Must Ask Creative, Adventurous Questions - The Kind Which, In All Likelihood, Cannot Be Answered.

It Is Obvious That Anything A Scientist Discovers Or Invents Is Based On Previous Discoveries And Inventions. The Same Applies To The Arts.

That Is Why The Analogy Of Stealing Does Not Work. With A Thief, We Want To Know How Much Money He Or She Stole, And From Whom? With The Artist It Is Not How Much He Or She Took From Whom, But What The Artist Did With It.

If One Uses Music That One Does Not Really Love, Then One Will Not Succeed In Making It One's Own.

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.