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When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part. -- Ray Liotta
Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. -- Terry Teachout
Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz. -- Terry Teachout
You don't have to know anything about the Shakers to appreciate Mr. Copland's score for 'Appalachian Spring' any more than you have to know who William Randolph Hearst was to understand 'Citizen Kane.' -- Terry Teachout
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. -- Elliott Carter
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time! -- Paul Lansky
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country. -- Aaron Copland

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