Schoenberg Quotes

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

Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or progressive manner, whether one tries to imitate old styles or is destined to express new ideas - one must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and one must believe in one's own inspiration. - Arnold Schoenberg

We are doing a program this season of music by Schubert, Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel, music which is totally -- on paper -- incompatible. - Lorin Maazel

This is entirely driven by two composers who changed music. That being said, if Jim came to me and said I need Schoenberg and Stockhausen, or Schoenberg and Milton Babbitt, I probably would have had a different willingness for proceeding with the plan. - Mark Volpe

The Schoenberg's have created a multi-media project for children that makes learning (about the body) more fun. - Scott Simon

The big question for Yahoo, actually for both parties, is whether we're going to take this to the Supreme Court. - E. Randol Schoenberg

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked. - E. Randol Schoenberg

Just because someone sues you in a foreign country doesn't mean you can come here and sue them. - E. Randol Schoenberg

It's a decision the whole family has to make; there are four other heirs, we haven't wanted to count the chickens before they hatch. Let's let it sink in a little bit. No decision has been made yet. - E. Randol Schoenberg