Book Quote by Billy Joel

I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a…

— Isaac Asimov

“Cher and share alike. At least in sound. Most of the decisions I make are sound, exactly like Beethoven when he wrote and discarded…

— Jarod Kintz

Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.

— Victor Borge

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

“Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy…

— Tomoko Ninomiya

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that…

— Wayne Shorter

“Beethoven wrote Für Elise around 1810, though Elise was actually supposed to be Therese, a woman he was to marry in the same year.…

— Mary Kubica

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

— Anthony Hopkins

People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's…

— William Shatner

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do…

— Lukas Foss

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even…

— Emanuel Ax

“Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who directed the opera and dance scenes for the film Amadeus, has this to say about the film’s portrait of Mozart:…

— Mark McGuinness

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull?…

— David Ogilvy

Killing Eve' was kind of the road for me as an art person, where you have this opportunity to work with so many different…

— Kim Bodnia

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the…

— Richard Whately