The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
AARON COPLANDIf a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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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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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
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The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
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Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
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Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”
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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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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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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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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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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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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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