Musics Quotes

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

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.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.