Quote by John Irving

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with…

— Robert Schumann

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

— Harold C. Schonberg

“I’ve got this perception of Beethoven where he’s just, like, really pissed all the time. Yeah, ol’ Ludwig, he had a lot to pound…

— Hannah Johnson

“Although Walter was the first to admit that his own memory wasn’t the best—that he forgot people’s names all the time even when he’d…

— Christa Faust

“I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for…

— Alice Hoffman

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

— Eric Idle

“So Walter Arensberg, Alfred Kreymborg, Carl Sandburg, Louis Untermeyer, Eunice Tietjens, Clara Shanafelt, James Oppenheim, Maxwell Bodenheim, Richard Glaenzer, Scharmel Iris, Conrad Aiken, I…

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway?…

— Paula McLain

“Man known by his work, not by his name.”

— Akshay Malpani

“Which Meyer?”  Piper chuckled. “Meyer Meyer. Charlie just calls the other one Anomaly.”  “Catchy name.”  “Mmm.”  “Clara says he wants his own name. Because…

— Sean Platt

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has…

— Franz Grillparzer

“He had a last name for a first name, and a last name for a last name, but only because it came after his…

— Jarod Kintz