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