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Aaron Copland Quotes
Page 1 of 1Aaron Copland
November 14, 1900 - February 2, 1990
Nationality: American
Category: Composer
Subcategory: American Composer
|  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. | | A melody is not merely something you can hum. | | 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. | | 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. | | If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. | | To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. | | 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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