Aaron Copland
Composer
1900-11-14 – 1990-12-02
Aaron Copland was an American composer, conductor, and teacher widely associated with a distinctively American concert sound.
Quotes by Aaron Copland
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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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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 super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness— I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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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 super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness— I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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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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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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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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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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Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughn Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.
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