Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.
AARON COPLANDIf a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
More Aaron Copland Quotes
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Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”
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Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
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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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Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
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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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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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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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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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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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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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Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
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The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
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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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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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