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George Crumb Quotes

«In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.»
Author: George Crumb
«In any case, the task of finding fresh approaches to opera and to choral music will be inherited by the future.»
Author: George Crumb
«This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.»
Author: George Crumb
«The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.»
Author: George Crumb
«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.»
Author: George Crumb
«But I don't think it's a good thing to create less than good music in a world that's full of a lot of indifferent music.»
Author: George Crumb
«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.»
Author: George Crumb
«I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.»
Author: George Crumb
«An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures.»
Author: George Crumb
«My younger son is a rock archivist practically; I'm sure things have filtered out of that - it's in the air in this house.»
Author: George Crumb

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