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

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.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

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

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

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.

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