Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail
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Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism. Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them. Always trust yourself and your own feelings as opposed to any such analysis, review or introduction; if you should be wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly
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A young man asked Mozart how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, "You’re far too young to write a symphony." The young man then said, "What? You were writing symphonies when you were 10, and I’m 21." Mozart smiled and replied, "Yes, but I didn’t go around asking people how to do it."
—Sahil Bloom
what Nadia Boulanger taught me: “Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.”
Quincy Jones • 12 Notes: On Life and Creativity
A genius is a man most like himself.
-Thelonius Monk