List of Roger Sessions Quotes

I Have Sometimes Been Told That My Music Is 'difficult' For The Listener.

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.

Music Goes Deeper Than Emotion Into The Energies That Animate Our Psychic Life.

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.