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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

Topics: Birds Broader Find Inevitably Insects Large Music Must Nature Rhythms Sense Small Sounds Water Wind

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

~George Crumb

Topics: Easy Gesture Glance Make Relatively Retrospective Us

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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.

~George Crumb

Topics: Am Certain Composers Confusing Consider Diversity Enormous Most Music Procedures Rich Say Styles Systems Technical Today Would I Am

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

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Topics: Child Even Future Past Present Rebellious Will

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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.

~George Crumb

Topics: Diversity Future More Nonetheless Organic Our Present Procedure Resources Sense Sheer Somehow Task Will

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

~George Crumb

Topics: Been Development Idioms Instrumental Music New Phenomena Recent Remarkable Vocal

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

~George Crumb

Topics: Difficult More Move Seems Through Writing Years You

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It is easy to write unthinking music.

~George Crumb

Topics: Easy Music Write

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

~George Crumb

Topics: Low Music Now Point Right Think Very I Think

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

~George Crumb

Topics: Country Happy Kind Music Time

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: October 24th, 1929

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