Top 4 Quotes by Roger Sessions

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.

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

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

Roger Sessions

Psychics, Energy, Emotion

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