"If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri……" — Arnold Schoenberg
"If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…"
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12 Quotes by Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg has 12 quotes on this site.
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Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in…
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Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener
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I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for…
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My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
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I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
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I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling…
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I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
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There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
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I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the…
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You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
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If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
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More Adding Quotes
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding…
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Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
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You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's…
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous…
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can…
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