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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."
"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."
"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."
"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
"In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music."
Explore more quotes by 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 reflection of nature."
"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."
"Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general."
"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."
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