Quotes on Variations

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.