The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical clichรฉ, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.
There is no right life in the wrong one.
Dissonance is the truth about harmony.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.