Ellen Taaffe Zwilich quotes
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“All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.”
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“I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.”
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“Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.”
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“When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.”
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“If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.”
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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“EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.”
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“Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.”
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