Aaron Copland Quotes
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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I feel comfortable in my skin, so it doesn't matter what I wear or how I look. Confidence is my best accessory.
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I need a clone. I would like to be everywhere all the time.
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I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
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My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
