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So long as the human spirit th...

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

There is something about music...

There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

If a literary man puts togethe...

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

Listening to the Fifth Symphon...

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

Don't ever let him near a micr...

Don't ever let him near a microphone.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

A melody is not merely somethi...

A melody is not merely something you can hum

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

The whole problem can be state...

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes', And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be 'No.'

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

Is there a meaning to music? Y...

Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

The melody is generally what t...

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

Inspiration may be a form of s...

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

If you want to know about the ...

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

I hope my recordings of my own...

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

I adore extravagance but I abh...

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

You compose because you want t...

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

Listening to the Fifth Symphon...

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

Mozart in his music was probab...

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

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The inspired moment may someti...

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

You may feel depressed, but it...

You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

If one were asked to name one ...

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

Arthur V. Berger commenting on...

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

Aaron Copland 41 quotes

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