Robert Morris Composers Quotations

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.

When composers say that music is a temporal art, I think that's true, but what is most fun in music is when you know that there are connections that are non-temporal. You can compare them with the unfolding of the piece again - you can compare the drama of the unfolding with the relationships that you remember.