Affinity Quote by William Shatner

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

— Edward Abbey

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

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

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

— Edward Abbey

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

— Anonymous

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a…

— Robert Greenberg

“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

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

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

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.…

— Billy Joel

Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite,…

— Robert Wright