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Arnold Schoenberg Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.



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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.

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.



My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played



My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.



I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.



Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.



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

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



You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.



My music is not lovely.

My music is not lovely.





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