George Crumb Music Quotations

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

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.

Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities.

An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.

This awareness of music in its largest sense - as a world-wide phenomenon - will inevitably have enormous consequences for the music of the future.

In any case, the task of finding fresh approaches to opera and to choral music will be inherited by the future.

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.

An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures.