Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor.

Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Sonata,” he says, “means ‘sounding together.’ It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they struggle until…

— Eula Biss

“The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs escape through…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.”

— Nataly Kelly

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

— Sergei Prokofiev

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

— Neil Sedaka

“She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata. She buries her failure in this, as she buries…

— Lauren Groff

I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Listening to Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven while I write. Its not fair to just call it music; its audible emotion.

— Philip DeFranco

“The Moonlight sonata is a strange piece of music. It's been called a Lamentation. You can feel that when you play it, can feel…

— Tiffany Reisz

“In the case of this sonata, Nero had apparently been inspired by somebody beating up a cat,”

— Lemony Snicket

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

— Alexander Scriabin

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood…

— Kathleen Valentine

Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.

— Julian Bream