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It is easy to write unthinking music.


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.


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, but it neglects a huge area of music.


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.


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 procedures, and systems of esthetics.


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


I think we're in a very low point of music right now.


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.


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.


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.


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


This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.


The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.


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.


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


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.


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


I am optimistic about the future of music.


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


I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.