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.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

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

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

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

I am optimistic about the future of music.