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

Aaron Copland

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
AARON COPLAND

Gift Listener Listening Music Primarily Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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Hum Melody Merely Something
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
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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Couch Music People Relax Stress Wisdom
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
AARON COPLAND

Literary Men Together Two Word Wrong
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
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Assuming Enough Love Music Surprise Tend
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
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
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Abhor Adore Extravagance Waste

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