Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

- Anton Webern

So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind…

- Anton Webern

And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vess…

- Anton Webern

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

- Anton Webern

The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be ov…

- Anton Webern

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

- Anton Webern

Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

- Anton Webern

As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and si…

- Anton Webern

Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between all…

- Anton Webern