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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. ↗

— George Crumb

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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. ↗

— George Crumb

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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. ↗

— Andres Segovia

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So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. ↗

— James Cook

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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. ↗

— Mose Allison

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