Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My ans... by Aaron Copland

Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of the... by Aaron Copland

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

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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 hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

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Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

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If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

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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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The melody is generally what the piece is all about. by Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

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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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A melody is not merely something you can hum. by Aaron Copland

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

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Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

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