Quotes About Arnold Schoenberg

#1. I am proud to do so for I know that by supporting George W. Bush, I serve my country well.

John McCain

#2. I'm upset, Ellie! Because you won't talk to me! Because you always hurt me! You make it so hard to love you!

A Meredith Walters

#3. 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.

Arnold Schoenberg

#4. Rests always sound well.

Arnold Schoenberg

#5. I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

Arnold Schoenberg

#6. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Tse-tung

#7. If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.

Gerard De Ridefort

#8. There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Arnold Schoenberg

#9. Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

Arnold Schoenberg

#10. These are one-time pads.

Neal Stephenson

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

Arnold Schoenberg

#12. In a thousand years, you could hold the entirety of the city in the palm of your hand.

Rick Yancey

#13. 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.

Arnold Schoenberg

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

Arnold Schoenberg

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

Arnold Schoenberg

#16. [If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters, then it would be clear how superfluous the music theorist is and how he is just as harmful as the art academies.

Arnold Schoenberg

#17. If I have learned anything great in this life it was unconditional love that didn't require reciprocation because giving always completed me more.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. As for Fergus. He had a habit which Maud was not experienced enough to recognise as a common one in ex-lovers of giving little tugs at the carefully severed spider-threads or puppet-strings which had once tied her to him.

A.S. Byatt

#19. 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

#20. Walk by faith. God will open the way. When there is no way, He will open the way.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#21. 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

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

Arnold Schoenberg

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

Arnold Schoenberg

#24. 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

#25. I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

Arnold Schoenberg

#26. 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

#27. Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

Dean Koontz

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. My music is not lovely

Arnold Schoenberg

#31. What I've noticed about celebrities is, if they are really successful, they're more down-to-earth.

Laura Bell Bundy

#32. Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Arnold Schoenberg

#33. My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Arnold Schoenberg

#34. There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Arnold Schoenberg

#35. In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Arnold Schoenberg

#36. 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