Book Quote by Billy Joel

“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

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far…

— Robert Fritz

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it…

— Smokey Robinson

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write…

— Walter Mosley

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and…

— Maurice Ravel

“In every field, even the most eminent creators typically produce a large quantity of work that’s technically sound but considered unremarkable by experts and…

— Adam M. Grant

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

— Alberto Moravia

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

— Robert Schumann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann