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George Crumb Quotes
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. - George Crumb Quotes
An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures. - George Crumb Quotes
An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells. - George Crumb Quotes
As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I dont think it really replaces the other. - George Crumb Quotes
I am certain that most composers today would consider todays music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. - George Crumb Quotes
I am optimistic about the future of music. - George Crumb Quotes
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. - George Crumb Quotes
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 traditional music of their own cultures. - George Crumb Quotes
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. - George Crumb Quotes
I pick up the New York Times or Time and its talking about the latest rock group, which Im sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music. - George Crumb Quotes
I sometimes wonder, too, if people dont have kind of a window of time when they do their best work. And anything after that is like a gift. - George Crumb Quotes
I think were in a very low point of music right now. - George Crumb Quotes
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 music for decades, if not centuries. - George Crumb Quotes
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. - George Crumb Quotes
It is easy to write unthinking music. - George Crumb Quotes
Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century. - George Crumb Quotes
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure. - George Crumb Quotes
Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities. - George Crumb Quotes
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. - George Crumb Quotes
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature. - George Crumb Quotes
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. - George Crumb Quotes
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. - George Crumb Quotes
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. - George Crumb Quotes
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. - George Crumb Quotes
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. - George Crumb Quotes
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. - George Crumb Quotes
This awareness of music in its largest sense - as a world-wide phenomenon - will inevitably have enormous consequences for the music of the future. - George Crumb Quotes
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country. - George Crumb Quotes
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 which I have referred. - George Crumb Quotes
Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years. - George Crumb Quotes
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