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«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.'»
Author: Aaron Copland (Composer) | Keywords: asking, stated, to that
«The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers»
«The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.»
«The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.»
«The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.»
«The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.»
«So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!»
«The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.»
«We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.»
«Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.»

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