Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
AARON COPLAND
The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It’s useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.
More Aaron Copland Quotes
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Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
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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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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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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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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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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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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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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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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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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
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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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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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I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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