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    #16
    From Joseph Haydn: "There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."
    "God knows why it is that my pianoforte music always makes the worst impression on me, especially when it is played badly." -Beethoven 1804.

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      #17
      From John Philip Sousa: "Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds."
      "God knows why it is that my pianoforte music always makes the worst impression on me, especially when it is played badly." -Beethoven 1804.

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        #18
        Franz Schubert - “Who can ever do anything after Beethoven?”

        Amen to that!
        Fidelio

        Must it be.....it must be

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          #19
          Robert Schumann during a review of young Chopin's music -
          "Hats off, gentlemen: a genius."

          Robert Schumann, upon becoming acquainted with the music of P.D.Q. Bach -
          "Hats back on, gentlemen: an idiot."

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