"You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle."

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Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin

Aaron Copland

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“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
“As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.”
“To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.”
“I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.”
“Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.”
“I don't want to force somebody to talk about sensitive subjects if they're not into it, but at the very least, even if that's happening off camera, it's allowing everybody to be on the same level, and creates an atmosphere on set that engenders trust.”
“In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.”
“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”

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