Alban Berg Quotes

#1. You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."

David Longstreth

#2. Her kiss didn't sweep away the dark anguish he felt in his heart. Instead, it embraced it. It acknowledged it.

Courtney Milan

#3. I can only strive for what is important

Rosie Thomas

#4. The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

Alban Berg

#5. Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

Alban Berg

#6. Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

Alban Berg

#7. You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

Winston Churchill

#8. I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Alban Berg

#9. I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent ... towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

Alban Berg

#10. You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

Willie Nelson

#11. So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Charles Kingsley