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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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