All Aaron Copland Quotes
- Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. Antithesis
- Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious… Consoled
- The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the… Attention
- Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. Cow
- If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. Inspirational
- 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… Alive
- I adore extravagance but I abhor waste. Abhor
- 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… Always Get
- If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. Beatles
- Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. Assume
- Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple. Better
- 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… Aaron
- 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… Create
- Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!" Answer
- The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy. Audience
- A melody is not merely something you can hum. Funny
- 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… Amateur
- There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and… Control
- 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. Accompany
- To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. Flow
- 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… Answer
- Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No. Inspirational
- 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. Antithesis