Lukas Foss Quotes

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

The great love of my life is music.

Music is my love.

Music is in my DNA!

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

We make music that we believe in. That's all it is.

It's such a wonderful thing for me to be able to be in there and make music with people that I love, first of all. It's something that I'm so passionate about.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.