Roger Sessions quotes
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“But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.”
-- Roger SessionsSource : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press
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“Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.”
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“What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.”
-- Roger SessionsSource : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press
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“I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.”
-- Roger SessionsSource : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.169, Princeton University Press
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“People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.”
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Source : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin
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