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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.