- Philip Glass: What I am beginning to notice is a taste for individuality in terms of language, which people are able to follow without being required to be part of a school. In a way, you see, it was easy for us because we had a real enemy, and there's nothing like having an enemy to energize the battles that we were fighting.
- Philip Glass: I like the feeling that we are on the verge of chaos sometimes with our music and there is a brashness to it, a kind of irreverence to it that appeals to me. I am very, very confident about this new generation. The last thing you want to be is the end of a tradition.
- Julia Wolfe: I think that all sound making can be interpreted as and can find it's way into music, I guess that what makes the difference between noise and sound is partly how you perceive it.
- Lois Vierk: Partly I think of there being an intellectual part of music. The way a composer takes sound and decides how to shape it, how to develop it, how to put it together. The other part I think of is being very much unconcious. In my case I like to sketch for maybe hundreds of pages before I begin a piece and at this point I like to be as uncensored as possible just let things drip off my pencil and then turn the page and start again. And just not just interfere, so to speak with what's inside but I like to just let it flow out.