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

Aaron Copland

Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”
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Answer Everyday Inspiration Life Once Positive
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
The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
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Generally Melody Piece
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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Assemble Compose Material
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
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
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
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

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