Inspiring quotes from composers that could just as easily apply to writers

"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."

~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets."

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art."

~ Arnold Schoenberg

"Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity."

~ Giacchino Rossini

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

~ Frederic Chopin

"There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating."

~ Frederick Delius

"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."

~ Robert Schumann

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

~ Hector Berlioz

"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."

~ Charles Ives

"It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me."

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better."

~ Georg Frideric Handel

"It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music."

~ Ralph Vaughan Williams