I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that inner strength and intuition can surpass formal education.
Arnold Schoenberg emphasizes the concept that one's inherent abilities and instincts can be more influential than the knowledge gained through education. He highlights the idea that personal drive and creativity, which are often innate, can lead to greater achievements than traditional learning alone. This reflects a belief in the significance of individual potential and the impact of internal motivation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about following one's passion over conventional paths.
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.
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!
There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate β it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
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