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Top 20 Arnold Schoenberg Quotes (2025 Update)

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.”

1. “There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “My music is not modern, it is merely badly played.”

2. “My music is not modern, it is merely badly played.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”

4. “If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener.”

7. “Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”

8. “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

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “Rests always sound well.”

10. “Rests always sound well.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.”

11. “Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.”

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

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “My music is not lovely.”

14. “My music is not lovely.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!”

15. “I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “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!”

16. “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

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!”

18. “In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.”

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

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.”

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

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “I can see through walls.”

21. “I can see through walls.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “The serious artist should stop flailing his arms in a bid for attention, and instead withdraw into a principled solitude.”

22. “The serious artist should stop flailing his arms in a bid for attention, and instead withdraw into a principled solitude.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg Quote: “There are no more geniuses, only critics.”

23. “There are no more geniuses, only critics.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

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