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

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.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

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

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

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.