Quotes by Aaron Copland

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

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.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

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