Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesnโt.
Aaron CoplandThe greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
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 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 Copland