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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul