George Crumb Quotes
"One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past."
- George Crumb
(Related: Culture, Past, Senses)
"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."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Nature, Idea, Being, Light, Problems, Reflection)
"Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music)
"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."
- George Crumb
(Related: Diversity, Future, Present, Sense, Will)
"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."
- George Crumb
(Related: Composers, Crisis, Today, Years)
"The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Development, Remarkable)
"The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child."
- George Crumb
(Related: Future, Past, Present, Will)
"The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make."
- George Crumb
"This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Time, 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."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Culture, Sense, World)
"I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish."
- George Crumb
(Related: English)
"Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years."
- George Crumb
(Related: Writing, Years)
"It is easy to write unthinking music."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music)
"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."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Nature, Birds, Insects, Sense, Water, Wind)
"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."
- George Crumb
(Related: Art, History, Music)
"I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Time, People, Talking)
"Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century."
- George Crumb
"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."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, People, Countries, Interest)
"I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic."
- George Crumb
(Related: Present)
"I am optimistic about the future of music."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Future)
"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Composers, Diversity, Today)
"As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music)
"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Composers, Spiritual)
"I think we're in a very low point of music right now."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Now, Right)