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Top 25 George Crumb Quotes (2025 Update)

George Crumb Quote: “The rhythms of nature – the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects – must inevitably find their analogues in music.”

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

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George Crumb Quote: “I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul.”

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

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George Crumb Quote: “Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse.”

3. “Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse.”

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George Crumb Quote: “The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.”

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

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George Crumb Quote: “The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.”

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

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George Crumb Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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George Crumb Quote: “I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.”

7. “I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.”

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George Crumb Quote: “Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.”

8. “Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.”

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George Crumb Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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George Crumb Quote: “I am optimistic about the future of music.”

10. “I am optimistic about the future of music.”

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George Crumb Quote: “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.”

11. “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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George Crumb Quote: “Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.”

12. “Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.”

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George Crumb Quote: “The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.”

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

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George Crumb Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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George Crumb Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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George Crumb Quote: “I must confess, my Spanish is not so good – except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.”

16. “I must confess, my Spanish is not so good – except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.”

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George Crumb Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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George Crumb Quote: “Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.”

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

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George Crumb Quote: “It is easy to write unthinking music.”

19. “It is easy to write unthinking music.”

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George Crumb Quote: “As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don’t think it really replaces the other.”

20. “As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don’t think it really replaces the other.”

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George Crumb Quote: “This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.”

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

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George Crumb Quote: “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.”

22. “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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George Crumb Quote: “I pick up the New York Times or Time and it’s talking about the latest rock group, which I’m sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.”

23. “I pick up the New York Times or Time and it’s talking about the latest rock group, which I’m sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.”

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George Crumb Quote: “Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.”

24. “Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.”

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George Crumb Quote: “The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.”

25. “The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.”

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George Crumb Quote: “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.”

26. “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

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