To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron CoplandThe main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.
Aaron CoplandArthur 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.
Aaron CoplandA great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.
Aaron CoplandMozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.
Aaron Copland