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 up the next morning. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss! — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
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… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image