I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

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

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

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

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.