A melody is not merely something you can hum.
AARON COPLAND
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
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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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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
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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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Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
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The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
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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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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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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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Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
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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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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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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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I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”
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