"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!"

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Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Christian Meyer, Therese Muxeneder, Arnold Schönberg Center (2005). “Arnold Schönberg: catalogue raisonné”

Arnold Schoenberg

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes #Proud Quotes

“If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.”

Source : Bill Hybels (2010). “The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond”, p.11, Zondervan
“The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.”
“Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will....”
“All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.”
“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”
“Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.”
“When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it thereâ€™s nothing there. Itâ€™s just you holding yourself back.”
“You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.”

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