Cases Quote by John Cage

I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll…

— John Cage

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

— Alban Berg

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to…

— Leo Ornstein

I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I…

— Missy Mazzoli

“It was in Barcelona that Schoenberg composed much of Act II of Moses und Aron. He never required quietness to work—indeed, he preferred to…

— Malcolm MacDonald

“No subject was more perfectly suited to the loosened formal framework and swift juxtaposition of disparate elements that marked his ‘totally chromatic’ style; and…

— Malcolm MacDonald

“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One…

— Anonymous

I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.

— Glenn Gould

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was a tangible…

— Shane Koyczan

“Harmony is everything, your central nervous system can bear witness to that in every area of your life...if you let your soul step to…

— Tracey Bond

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to…

— Eric Clapton