“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.” WayMomentsLosesMusicStrangeMastersDistanceDwarfs Book:Music and imagination Source: Music and imagination
“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.” WayMindLooksKindMaySometimesStatesMomentsAttentionHalfListeningPersonalityInspiredState Of MindOther HalfFadingOne HalfInspectionSimulateDisgruntledEmote Book:Music and imagination Source: Music and imagination
“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.” WayWantFeelsFeelingsTodayFormAliveStatementsPermanentLive For Today Author:Aaron Copland
