I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people.… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg,… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He… — John Cage Copy Share Image
If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings… — George Perle Copy Share Image
You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more… — John Cage Copy Share Image
In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that… — John Zorn Copy Share Image