Aaron Copland: Living

Aaron Copland was American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor. Explore interesting quotes on living.

Aaron Copland: 26 quotes2 likes

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.

“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it.”

Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit (1954).

“If the listener does eventually come to the point where he makes the ultimate performance by splicing tapes from other musicians' recordings, he will eventually become just as bored with it as with other recordings, for it will still always be the same. Look, for instance, at electronic music. The boys are already becoming bored with what they do because they put it irrevocably on tape. The best indication of this is that more and more they are mixing the live performance element with their tapes.”

Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.