"My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers."
— Arnold Schoenberg

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in an interview with José Rodriguez (c. 1936) in Schoenberg‎ (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 143