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The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Aaron Copland

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”
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Answer Jazz Music Problem Quite Simply State
I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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Assemble Compose Material
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.
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Brutal Fact People Want Recording Work
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.
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Ask Compose Flaw Human Musician Name
Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”
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Answer Everyday Inspiration Life Once Positive
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.
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Alive Compose Feeling Live Permanent Today
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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Literary Men Together Two Word Wrong
A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.
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Flow Great Irresistibly Long Men Mississippi Symphony
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Abhor Adore Extravagance Waste
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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Hum Melody Merely Something
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Flow Inconceivable Incredible Music Stop Time
The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
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Generally Melody Piece
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
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Know Music Play Sixties The Beatles Want
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!
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Depress Depressing Express Feel Moving People
The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It’s useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.
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Audience Happy Satisfied Useless
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.”
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Art Ask Music Problem Quite State

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