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"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"What force is more potent than love?"
Love
"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."
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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
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"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
Work
"I am an inventor of music."
Music
"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead."
Love
"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators."
Artist
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
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"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."
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"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."
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