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5 Arnold Schoenberg Quotes

Arnold Schoenberg presents grand, tongue-in-cheek commentary on music and creativity.

Arnold Schoenberg quotes

  1. 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.'

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

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  3. 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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  4. Charles Ives (Schoenberg praising Ives)

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

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