|
Aaron Copland - From the Composition category:
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. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Criticism category:
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Earth category:
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. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Inspiration category:
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. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Inspiration category:
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens had better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Listening category:
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. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Music category:
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.' (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Music category:
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Music category:
A melody is not merely something you can hum. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Music category:
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Symphony category:
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes. (Aaron Copland)
Aaron Copland - From the Words category:
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. (Aaron Copland)
| 
