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.
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Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.Aaron Copland
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it.
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I heard these guys play at St. George earlier this year, and they mentioned they do educational programs,
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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