Aaron Copland Quotes

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, Long, Human

A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Aaron Copland

Melody, Merely, Hum

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

Music, Words, Together

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

Music, Time, Stop

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

Today, Live, Feelings

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

May, Sure, Perhaps

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, Words, Problem

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 14, 1900

Died: February 2, 1990

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