George Crumb Time Quotations

I sometimes wonder, too, if people don't have kind of a window of time when they do their best work. And anything after that is like a gift.

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

Although we must be impressed by the enormous accruement of new elements of vocabulary in the areas of pitch, rhythm, timbre, and so forth, I sense at the same time the loss of a majestic unifying principle in much of our recent music.