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Top 10 Arnold Schoenberg Quotes

  1. 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.
  2. My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
  3. My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
  4. Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
  5. You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
  6. Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.
  7. Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.
  8. An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
  9. There are no more geniuses, only critics.
  10. There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Arnold Schoenberg Short Quotes

  • In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!
  • Rests always sound well.
  • I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!
  • My music is not lovely.
  • I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
  • I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
  • If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Arnold Schoenberg Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Arnold Schoenberg

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! — Arnold Schoenberg

Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex. — Arnold Schoenberg

Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing. — Arnold Schoenberg

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate. — Arnold Schoenberg

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears. — Arnold Schoenberg

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning. — Arnold Schoenberg

Life Lessons by Arnold Schoenberg

  1. Arnold Schoenberg's work demonstrates the importance of experimentation and pushing boundaries in composition. He developed the twelve-tone technique, which revolutionized the way music was composed and performed.
  2. His works also emphasize the importance of collaboration and working with other composers and musicians. Schoenberg was part of the Second Viennese School, which included composers such as Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
  3. Schoenberg's works also show the importance of embracing new technologies and incorporating them into the creative process. He was an early adopter of the phonograph and used it to record and study his own works.
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