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“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”
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“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.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
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“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”
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“Jazz is the music of the body.”
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“I was totally into jazz in my teens.”
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“My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.”
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“If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.”
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“To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.”
Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
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“If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.”
