Arnold SchoenbergThinkers

The Age of the genius is over. There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Arnold Schoenberg is a composer whose music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Arnold Schoenberg is a composer whose music is not lovely.

C major is not exhausted. There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

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

Form 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.

Form is unable to be expected before the Idea, for they will come into being together.

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.

Psychoanalysis is the disease which it purports to cure.