Copland Quotes: top 30 famous quotes about Copland

Copland Quotes & Sayings

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Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart. — Vinayak

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. — Terry Teachout

Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety. — George Eliot

Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on. — Assegid Habtewold

Never run from anything immortal. It only attracts their attention. — 19

Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No. — Aaron Copland

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn't. — Aaron Copland

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. — Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials. — Aaron Copland

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

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love is the perfection of it.
'Perfection — Steve Copland

I've always found that if you live in a cramped place, you have cramped thoughts. — Craig Taylor

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music. — Aaron Copland

Ladies and dogs," said Jeffrey, "we are about to perform 'Fanfare for the Uncommon Seal.' " "With apologies to Aaron Copland, — Jeanne Birdsall

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part. — Ray Liotta

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

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?"
"Pressure. Weight. Heat ... "
"The geological equivalent of torture. — Laura Argiri

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple. — Aaron Copland

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. — Aaron Copland

It's strange. Hearing you say my name."
"I can say it again if you'd like."
"No, I'll remember just fine. — Andrew Pyper

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. — Aaron Copland

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy. — Aaron Copland

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. — Aaron Copland

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

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste. — Aaron Copland

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

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination. — Aaron Copland

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

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting. — Curtis Sittenfeld

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. — Stacy Keach