So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to crea… — Robert Morris

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.

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. — George Eliot
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. — Benjamin Franklin
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. — Robert Frost
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music. — Robert Morris
Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think? — Robert Morris
I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. — Robert Morris