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 quote.

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

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousness — I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. - Aaron Copland quote.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousness — I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
— 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. So that when it's all gone, people will be able to go to the artwork of the time and get some sense of what at fell like to be alive in this year. - Aaron Copland quote.

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. So that when it's all gone, people will be able to go to the artwork of the time and get some sense of what at fell like to be alive in this year.

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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know; but I am sure that it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
— Aaron Copland Music and Imagination

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