Top 2 Joseph Kerman Quotes
#1. Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.
#2. Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger in the dyke but with his whole frame spreadeagled on a board swept along by the surf of history.