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Aaron Copland (Composer)

For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live . The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful ais, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own --with the same nuances forever.

— Aaron Copland men

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 one wants, although one improves with experience.

— Aaron Copland hope

If the listener does eventually come to the point where he makes the ultimate performance by splicing tapes from other musicians' recordings, he will eventually become just as bored with it as with other recordings, for it will still always be the same. Look, for instance, at electronic music. The boys are already becoming bored with what they do because they put it irrevocably on tape. The best indication of this is that more and more they are mixing the live performance element with their tapes.

— Aaron Copland music

I object tono matter how good it is. Composers want people to listen to their music, they don't want them doing something else while their music is on. I'd like to get the guy who sold all those big businessmen the idea of putting music in the elevators, for he was really clever. What on earth good does it do anybody to hear those four or eight bars while going up a few flights.

— Aaron Copland art

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

— Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

— Aaron Copland

Somehow, suddenly, a musical idea occurs to you; either a whole phrase, or three notes, or a series of chords, something that seems pregnant with possibilities for development. Once you have the kinds of ideas that fascinate you, you're no longer in a position to decide the nature of the animal. It's going to take its essence from the musical ideas that occur to you....Some musical ideas are too short, they don't seem long enough to carry you through ten minutes of music, so you have to start searching about for other ideas; contrasting ones that seem to fit with the original ones.

— Aaron Copland art

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it.

— Aaron Copland music

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

— Aaron Copland music

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 music

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

— Aaron Copland time

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 men

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

— Aaron Copland you

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 music

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

— Aaron Copland music

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 self

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