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Aaron Copland Quotes

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

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Author Details:
Type:
Composer Quotes
Category:
American Composer Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 14, 1900
Date of Death:
February 2, 1990
Nationality:
American
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All Aaron Copland Quotations:
A melody is not merely something...
If a literary man puts together...
Inspiration may be a form of...
So long as the human spirit...
The whole problem can be stated...
To stop the flow of music...
You compose because you want to...
 

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