48 Quotes by George Crumb

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I sometimes wonder, too, if people don't have kind of a window of time when they do their best work. And anything after that is like a gift.