George Crumb Quotes

Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Unification or Death

Europe has just too many countries who have hated each other for too long to pull it apart and very little to hold it together.

I will make them one nation in the land.

E Pluribus Unum [One out of many]

Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.

The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right.

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.