Alban Berg famous quotes

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.
-- Alban Berg

#Magic #Logic #Results

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

#Spiritual #Mad #Joy

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

#Reflection #Feelings #Perception

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

#Music #Independence #Proud

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
-- Alban Berg

#Feelings #Music Is

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?
-- Alban Berg

#Schoenberg

I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.
-- Alban Berg

#Believe #Thinking #Law

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic,

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.