I am optimistic about the future of music.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.