Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
AARON COPLANDAaron Copland Quotes
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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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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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Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.
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Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
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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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The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
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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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I don’t compose. I assemble materials.
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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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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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