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

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.

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

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.

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

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

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