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At USC, when I studied film scoring my first year, one of my first friends that I met was Ryan Coogler. He was in the directing program at USC. He became one of my best friends at school. Ludwig Goransson
Best School First Met Year Directing Studied He Became Scoring Friends USC Film Program
I'd love to work with Frank Ocean. I really like his music. Ludwig Goransson
Work Love Music Ocean Frank Like His Really
Chance The Rapper is a person who really knows what he wants. Ludwig Goransson
Rapper He Knows Person Wants Really Who Chance
I think to try to make new music and new ideas, you have to push the boundaries of existing music. Ludwig Goransson
Music You Try Think Push Boundaries New Ideas Make New Ideas New Music Existing
So when I'm listening to music, I'm listening to a lot of hip-hop to be inspired and to hear new things. Ludwig Goransson
Music Listening New Things Inspired New Hip-Hop Hear Lot Things
The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we've been working together for ten years, and he is always pushing the envelope in a way - like, whenever we work together, I have no idea what it is going to turn out to be. Ludwig Goransson
Work Art Great Man Working Together Together Great Art Way Out No Idea Ten Ten Years Envelope Pushing He Idea Like Renaissance Make Always Been Years Donald Going Just Whenever Turn Plan Work Together Working Who
I've produced all of Childish Gambino's music. Ludwig Goransson
Music Childish Produced
It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind of melody or chords over it, it stops feeling African. Ludwig Goransson
You Feeling Add Top Melody Kind Soon Over Over It Because Traditional Very Trying Any Orchestra Stops African Rhythms Chords Challenging
These days, you're always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you're in the mall or a subway car. Ludwig Goransson
Music You Car Days Always Sounds Mall Surrounded Whether Subway
I never used to get calls from artists or labels, but once you have a top 20 hit, you start getting them. Ludwig Goransson
You Once Top Never Calls Labels Hit Get Getting Artists Them Used Start
For the score of 'Black Panther,' the heart and soul came from immersing myself in the rich musical history of the griots in West Africa. I was following these brilliant musicians all over rural Senegal, learning their musical language. Ludwig Goransson
Myself History Musicians Soul Learning Heart Language Brilliant Black Rich Panther Musical Rural Following Over Came West Score Heart And Soul Africa
That's important for me, to never just relax and be too comfortable with what you have. Ludwig Goransson
Me You Relax Important Too Never Comfortable Just
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering? Ludwig van Beethoven
Death Me Be Happy Happy Suffering Fate Opportunity Will Wish Before Too State Meet Later Hasten Shall Deliver Faculties Develop Had Soon Come Joyfully Endless Artistic Then Should Hard Notwithstanding Even
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love. Lukas Foss
Love Lose Ourselves Paradox Find Identity Another Does Falling Falling In Love Interesting Here
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. Lukas Foss
You Creative Writing Sit Down Unless Project Say Write Like Know Want Act Creative Act Whom Letter
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. Lukas Foss
Important Way Missing Make Him Pigeonhole Sure Sure Way Label Contradictory Artist Unique Why Her Things
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store. Lukas Foss
War World Back Visit Berlin Only Remembered Days Shoe Childhood Native Store The Only Thing After Really Noticed Thing World War World War II
Truth is a big concept. Lukas Foss
Truth Truth Is Big Concept
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. Lukas Foss
Genius Indeed Would Qualities Understand Contradictory Mozart
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered. Lukas Foss
Creative Creativity Kind Must Adventurous Come Likelihood Answered Questions Cannot Which Grips Ask
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. Lukas Foss
Bach Classics Fact He Major Major Influence Obvious How Influence Interesting Them Turned Used Stravinsky
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. Lukas Foss
Best Creative Creative Process Elusive Way Best Way Misconceptions Investigate Well Target May Process Explain Phenomenon
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it. Lukas Foss
Work Money Thief Analogy Took Stealing He Know Does How How Much How Much Money Did Stole Artist Want Much Whom Why
My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project. Lukas Foss
Love Music You Yourself Will Advice Project Immerse Find Students Frequently Discover Want Ask Next Should Your
Mozart 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
Thirty-Five Out Would Write Take Lifetime He Know Wrote How His Years Did Just Literally Notes Mozart Many Works
Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time. Lukas Foss
Work Time Creative Sometimes Wrong Time Nothing Our Something Beat Stuck Head Wrong Most Because Block Wall Get Trying Artists Experienced Against
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