Bob felt as if the music was trying to lift him right out of his chair.

"The best African music tries to decide for itself its relationship with the outside world."

I think my music is trying to reflect something more uplifting, spiritual.

Yes, music does imitate nature, but, if smart, tries not to get too close to it.

Most music, at least until recently, has tried hard to civilize the unpleasantnesses of life.

The music, certainly, is trying to be dramatic and open, to the point of superficiality.

Debussy's music actually tries to eliminate all sense of difference and division.

The music was farther away now, and Will tried to put it out of his mind.

This new music tried to break boundaries and express the real emotions that people were feeling, but didn't talk about.

"American music tries to represent concerns about time, space, sound in the pure sense," she said.