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> [Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-weschler/genetically-i-have-tons-of-musical-background-in-my-life-my-mother-s/)

[Lawrence Weschler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-weschler/)

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## More by Lawrence Weschler

> [When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-weschler/when-you-re-a-kid-your-first-five-or-six-years-you-converge-all-the/)

[Lawrence Weschler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-weschler/)

> [I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-weschler/i-am-able-to-write-musically-about-the-visual-i-can-pick-up-tones-i/)

[Lawrence Weschler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-weschler/)

> [I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-weschler/i-kind-of-write-about-visual-art-the-way-roger-angell-writes-about/)

[Lawrence Weschler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-weschler/)

> [“Indeed, tone or voice is what you get when, larynxlike, you breathe through structure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-weschler/indeed-tone-or-voice-is-what-you-get-when-larynxlike-you-breathe/)

[Lawrence Weschler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-weschler/)

> [“When someone witnesses something amazing, what matters most is not 'out there' . . . but deep within, at the vital emotional center of witness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-weschler/when-someone-witnesses-something-amazing-what-matters-most-is-not-out/)

[Lawrence Weschler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-weschler/)

> [I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-weschler/i-tend-to-write-about-people-on-the-edge-who-are-pushing-things-out/)

[Lawrence Weschler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-weschler/)

> [Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-weschler/genetically-i-have-tons-of-musical-background-in-my-life-my-mother-s/)

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