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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Music Time Would Be

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

Art Music Would Be

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.

Giving Long Music

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

May Moments Spirit

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Cows Listening Symphony

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Music Stress Wisdom

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.

Alive Feelings Live For Today

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Not Happy Satisfied Useless

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

Jazz Music States

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

Knows Play Want

Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

Answers Inspiration

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Born Musical Simple

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.

Forever Important Sound

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Materials

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

Discipline Self Simplicity

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.

Distance Music Way

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Listening Mind Personality

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Art Inspirational Self

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

Assuming Music Love One Love

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.

Book Powerful Reading