Quotes of Aaron Copland - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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 in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' ”

- Aaron Copland

“ To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of selfconsciousness. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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 in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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 in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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 in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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 permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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 in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'. ”

- Aaron Copland

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

- Aaron Copland

“ 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. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution... the clean rhythms... the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution... the clean rhythms... the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ 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. ”

- Aaron Copland
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