“If they will ever learn to sing my music? Singers learned to sing Wagner and eventually they learned to sing Strauss. But I have a pet theory that someday In the future the human voice will be supplanted. I think that science will find a way to reproduce exactly the timbre of the human voice by mechanical methods. Then we can have actors on the stage for our operas and not have to worry because the singer with a beautiful voice is a poor musician, or vice versa.”
Arnold Schönberg, from an Interview (1948)
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