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.

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

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.

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

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.

It is easy to write unthinking music.