Aaron Copland Quotes & Sayings
7 most famous Aaron Copland quotes and sayings. He was an American composer who passed away on 2 December, 1990.
“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.”
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“A melody is not merely something you can hum.”
“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
“Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.”
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