Aaron Copland Quotes
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. 
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Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution... the clean rhythms... the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation.
- Aaron Copland
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. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
- Aaron Copland