Webern Quotes

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?" — Bob Brookmeyer

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern

Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing. — Anton Webern

Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why. — Anton Webern

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother. — Anton Webern

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts ... — Anton Webern

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas. — Anton Webern

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature. — Anton Webern