George Crumb Quotes

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.

A lot of people with a range of styles and vocal tones make all kinds of music for all sorts of audiences. I'll be forever grateful for that.

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.

Great music is great music, period.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.

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