If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies. — 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
If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
