George Crumb Quotes

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• I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people,…
• I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
• 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.
• As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
• I am optimistic about the future of music.
• 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…
• I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and…
• If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of…
• I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that…
• Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
• I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul
• Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
• The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
• It is easy to write unthinking music.
• This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
• Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
• The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
• The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
• One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and…
• Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to…

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