#y

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#film #last #main #movie #music

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ↗

— Ronnie Corbett

#anyone #ever #faster #going #idiot

We only part to meet again. ↗

— John Gay

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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin. ↗

— David Copperfield

#back #days #even #hand #magic

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#father #father and son #ford #frank #i

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. ↗

— Aaron Copland

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Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. ↗

— James J. Corbett

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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." ↗

— Aaron Copland

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