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

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

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

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.

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

It is easy to write unthinking music.

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