Making Music Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

“Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from”

— John C. Wright

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

— Itzhak Perlman

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

— Steve Lacy

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.

— Artur Schnabel

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.

— Luka Sulic

It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

“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

“For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written language, is…

— Marcel Proust

Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the…

— Hafez Nazeri

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

— Edmund Burke

I think for me, I had a long-standing desire to orchestrate the sunrise, and never came up with the right thing on piano. So…

— Suzanne Ciani