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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- 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