Materials Quote by Aaron Copland Download Open image “I don't compose. I assemble materials.” — Aaron Copland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Materials
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“Whatever comes under the heading of fugal form partakes in some way of the nature of a fugue. You already know, I feel sure,… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“Every symphony, for example, is a sonata for orchestra; every string quartet is a sonata for four strings; every concerto a sonata for a… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!" — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousnessóI wouldnít know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and… — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
