I am optimistic about the future of music.

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

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

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.

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.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.