I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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
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
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education. - Arnold Schoenberg
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. - Arnold Schoenberg
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art. - Arnold Schoenberg
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major. - Arnold Schoenberg
There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played - Arnold Schoenberg
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together. - Arnold Schoenberg
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
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
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 …
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
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
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