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This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
George Crumb
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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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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
George Crumb
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Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
George Crumb
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The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
George Crumb
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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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The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
George Crumb
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Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
George Crumb
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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
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