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Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Aaron Copland

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
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
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 melody is generally what the piece is all about.
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Generally Melody Piece
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Literary Men Together Two Word Wrong
Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”
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Answer Everyday Inspiration Life Once Positive
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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Hum Melody Merely Something
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
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Assuming Enough Love Music Surprise Tend
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

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