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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music."
"If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries."
"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."
"One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past."
"Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system."
"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."
"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."
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