I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that inner strength and intuition can surpass formal education.
Arnold Schoenberg emphasizes the concept that one's inherent abilities and instincts can be more influential than the knowledge gained through education. He highlights the idea that personal drive and creativity, which are often innate, can lead to greater achievements than traditional learning alone. This reflects a belief in the significance of individual potential and the impact of internal motivation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about following one's passion over conventional paths.
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 did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
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!
There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate β it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
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