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Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Aaron Copland

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
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
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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Giving Human Long Music Spirit Thrives
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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Assemble Compose Material
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
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

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