Aaron Copland Quotes

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

Aaron Copland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 14, 1900 - December 2, 1990

Topics

LiveTodayYouFeelingsDownAlive

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

Jo Nesbo

HomeTravelWorldPuzzleYouFind

I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

Meek Mill

BetterWayMoreRapDropAlbum

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

Amy Sherald

MyselfWorldLookingWayPaint

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.

Amanda Holden

LifeBabyNeverLovelyJustWould

Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.

Stephen Henderson

LifeLoveAppreciationLossYou

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Robertson Davies

SpiritualYouPlaceCanadaWhere

Collaboration is a vital part of my creative life. I've had success with Guy Clark and Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.

Rodney Crowell

LifeSuccessCreativeCollaboration

I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

ThoughtNeverSeeFilmInterested

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

Roisin Murphy

YourselfWorldExpress YourselfBeing

I love what I do. I want to continue winning medals.

Mo Farah

LoveWinningWantMedalsContinue

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.

Lois Lowry

MotherTodayChildrenBestChild

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.

Doug Davidson

LiveChildrenPlaceAnimalsPossible

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