Arnold Schoenberg Quotes

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• 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…
• Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener
• 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…
• My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
• If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…
• I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
• I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not…
• I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
• There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
• 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…
• You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
• If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

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