I think we're in a very low point of music right now.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures.

But I don't think it's a good thing to create less than good music in a world that's full of a lot of indifferent music.

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

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.