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“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 quotes (American Composer, 1900-1990)
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“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
santiz Virgil Thomson quotes (American Composer, 1896-1989)
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“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”
Ray Charles quotes (American Pianist and Singer, 1930-2004)
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland quotes (American Composer, 1900-1990)
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“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
Paul Simon quotes (American Singer and Song Writer, b.1941)
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“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
Marcel Marceau quotes (French Mime Artist, b.1923. He was the world's most famous mime and creator of Bip, the white-faced clown.)
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“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”
Igor Stravinsky quotes (Russian-born modern composer, 1882-1971)
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“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
Charlie Parker quotes (American bandleader, Saxophonist and Composer. Principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop. 1920-1955)
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“For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond”
Robert A. Schumann quotes (German Romantic composer, 1810-1856)
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