Crafts Quote by David Foster

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

— Joseph Joubert

“Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too…

— Peter Shaffer

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

— Johannes Brahms

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

— Eddie Van Halen

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

— Franz Schubert

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony,…

— David Ives

“There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts, heart & soul.”

— Mark Rubinstein

I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like…

— Carrie Preston

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human…

— Edward Abbey

Beethoven…composing…Full Blast… Shakespeare…scribbling frantically…No limits… Michelangelo…the Art…the Dance…Screaming, without a sound… My Muse… My very Soul… Watches me, Giggling, Smiling, Knowing, Hearing, The Song,…

— Eric Nickel

“The less number of people like my writing the happier I become. The masses do not understand a symphony too!”

— Avijeet Das