Quotes by : Aaron Copland

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

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

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

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would....

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

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But....

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would....