"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
About this Quote
In this quote, Roger Sessions highlights the power and function of music. He suggests that the supreme objective of music is to communicate human experience, encompassing a large range of emotions and depths. Whether it is a profound and life-altering experience or just a source of entertainment, music has the capability to connect with people on a deep level. Sessions stresses that music has the prospective to evoke a variety of feelings and experiences, from the most major and significant to the most lighthearted and satisfying. Ultimately, he believes that music has the ability to touch and communicate with individuals in such a way that words can not.
This quote is written / told by Roger Sessions between December 28, 1896 and March 16, 1985. He was a famous Composer from USA.
The author also have 2 other quotes.
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"
"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"
"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"
