I am optimistic about the future of 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.

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

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.

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.

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