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

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.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

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

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

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

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.