So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature. — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
