• 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.

  Aaron Copland
  American composer and writer 1900-1990
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. something
2. distance
3. engulfs
4. outside
5. another
6. dwarfs

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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. by : Aaron Copland

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