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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

Aaron Copland

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
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
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Comment Country Creativity Figure Music
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
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
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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Hum Melody Merely Something
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.
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Gift Listener Listening Music Primarily Thinking
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
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
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
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Assuming Enough Love Music Surprise Tend
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
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
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
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
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 adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Abhor Adore Extravagance Waste
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

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