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 …

- George Crumb

It is easy to write unthinking music.

- George Crumb

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 an…

- George Crumb

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels …

- George Crumb

I am optimistic about the future of music.

- George Crumb

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

- George Crumb

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

- George Crumb

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

- George Crumb

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 re…

- George Crumb