“My music is not lovely.”

—  Arnold Schoenberg

Quoted by Theodor Adorno in his essay "Art and the Arts", 1966, reproduced in Clausen 2008, 387 http://books.google.com/books?id=JaVBgTmaSgYC&lpg=PA387).
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