Aaron Copland Quotes About Listening

Quotes about: Listening

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

  Aaron Copland

  Symphony, Listening, Cows

• When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Thinking, Listening

• The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

  Aaron Copland

  Personality, Listening, Mind

  Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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