Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.

Arnold Schoenberg's Popular Quotes

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

- Arnold Schoenberg

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

- Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

- Arnold Schoenberg

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

- Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

- Arnold Schoenberg

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I …

- Arnold Schoenberg

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking…

- Arnold Schoenberg

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

- Arnold Schoenberg

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

- Arnold Schoenberg