George Crumb Quotes

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

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Although we must be impressed by the enormous accruement of new elements of vocabulary in the areas of pitch, rhythm, timbre, and so forth, I sense at the same time the loss of a majestic unifying principle in much of our recent music. - George Crumb

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. - 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