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There are no more geniuses, only critics.

— Arnold Schoenberg Those Who Complain about the Decline (1923)

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

Now we will throw these mediocre kitsch-mongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God.

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."

I believe that he (Strauss) will remain one of the characteristic and outstanding figures in musical history. Works like Salome, Elektra and Intermezzo, and others will not perish.

Arnold Schoenberg (1946)

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

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