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Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”

Aaron Copland

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
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Great Human May Moment Spirit
Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”
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Answer Everyday Inspiration Life Once Positive
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
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
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 adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Abhor Adore Extravagance Waste
The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
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Generally Melody Piece
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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Hum Melody Merely Something
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
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
I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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Assemble Compose Material
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
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.
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Art Inspirational Perhaps Self Subconscious Super
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
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
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

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