Exciting Quote by George Crumb

It is easy to write unthinking music.

— George Crumb

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

— George Crumb

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

— George Crumb

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in…

— George Crumb

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient…

— George Crumb

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

— George Crumb

I am optimistic about the future of music.

— George Crumb

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined…

— George Crumb

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

— George Crumb

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

— George Crumb

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

— George Crumb

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

— George Crumb