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

Aaron Copland

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
I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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Assemble Compose Material
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Abhor Adore Extravagance Waste
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 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
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
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Assuming Enough Love Music Surprise Tend
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
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Cow Fifth Listening Ralph Vaughan Symphony Time
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
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
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Born Complex Inherently Musical Simple
The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
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Generally Melody Piece
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
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 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
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.
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Breathtaking Express Flow Mozart Source Spontaneity Tap
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.
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Giving Human Long Music Spirit Thrives
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

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