Roger Sessions Quotes

• 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 Sessions

  Communication, Two, Profound

  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.

  Roger Sessions

  Psychics, Energy, Emotion

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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 Sessions

  Profound, Levels, Lasts

  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 Sessions

  Sometimes, Difficult, Music Is

  Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.169, Princeton University Press

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