--- title: "4 Roger Sessions Quotes - Famous Classical composer" description: "Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. Browse 4 Roger Sessions quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b100/author-roger-sessions-71899.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Roger Sessions](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b100/author-roger-sessions-71899.jpg) # Roger Sessions (1896–1985) Classical Composer United States **4** quotes in **27** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Roger Sessions was a classical composer from the United States, best known for *Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener*. ## Quick Facts About Roger Sessions Born December 28, 1896 Died March 16, 1985 Nationality United States Profession Classical Composer Notable works Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener Known for Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 7 ## About Roger Sessions Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Sessions's friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced him, but he modified his technique to a unique style involving rows to supply melodic themes, while composing subsidiary parts freely. ## Awards & Honors Guggenheim Fellowship Pulitzer Prize for Music Rome Prize Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music ## Quotes by Roger Sessions > [Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-sessions/music-goes-deeper-than-emotion-into-the-energies-that-animate-our/) Roger Sessions [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/roger-sessions-71899_deeper_music-goes-deeper-than-emotion-into-the_520457.png) > [I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-sessions/i-have-sometimes-been-told-that-my-music-is-difficult-for-the-listener/) Roger Sessions [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/roger-sessions-71899_difficult_i-have-sometimes-been-told-that-my-music_1074926.png) > [What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-sessions/what-we-ask-of-music-first-and-last-is-that-it-communicate-experience/) Roger Sessions [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be2/roger-sessions-71899_all-kinds_what-we-ask-of-music-first-and-last-is-t_2813362.png) > [But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-sessions/but-communication-is-two-sided-vital-and-profound-communication-makes/) Roger Sessions [Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5e/roger-sessions-71899_communication_but-communication-is-two-sided-vital-and_2814144.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-sessions/#itemlist", "name": "Roger Sessions Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roger Sessions" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-sessions/music-goes-deeper-than-emotion-into-the-energies-that-animate-our/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/roger-sessions-71899_deeper_music-goes-deeper-than-emotion-into-the_520457.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/roger-sessions-71899_deeper_music-goes-deeper-than-emotion-into-the_520457.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/roger-sessions-71899_deeper_music-goes-deeper-than-emotion-into-the_520457.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.” — Roger Sessions", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roger Sessions" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-sessions/i-have-sometimes-been-told-that-my-music-is-difficult-for-the-listener/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/roger-sessions-71899_difficult_i-have-sometimes-been-told-that-my-music_1074926.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/roger-sessions-71899_difficult_i-have-sometimes-been-told-that-my-music_1074926.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/roger-sessions-71899_difficult_i-have-sometimes-been-told-that-my-music_1074926.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.” — Roger Sessions", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - 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