Anton Webern quotes

Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor, closely associated with the Second Viennese School. His innovative use of atonality and concise musical structures greatly influenced 20th-century classical music. He is remembered for his pioneering role in the development of serialism and modern composition. Here are 4 of his quotes:

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)
Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing. View quote
Anton Webern
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge. View quote
Anton Webern
[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality. View quote
Anton Webern