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

I am optimistic about the future of music.

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

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

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