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

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

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.

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

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

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

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