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All music has to speak in some form or other.

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.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.