George Crumb Quotes

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years. - 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. - George Crumb

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country. - George Crumb

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

There is, to be sure, a sense of adventure and challenge in articulating our conceptions, despite the fact that we can take so little for granted; and perhaps we tend to underestimate the struggle-element in the case of the earlier composers. - George Crumb

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

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. - George Crumb

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

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

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