48 Quotes by George Crumb

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.

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.

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.

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.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

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

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