Howard Jay Smith > Quotes

“Understand she was the omega to my father’s alpha and by that I mean, she was my closest friend.”
― Howard Jay Smith, Beethoven In Love; Opus 139: Concerto Quasi Una Fantasia

“any society that depends on conscience has no defense against a sociopath who has none. But”
― Howard Jay Smith, Meeting Mozart: A Novel Drawn From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte

“Not knowing life, Louis, why worry about death?”
― Howard Jay Smith, Beethoven In Love; Opus 139: Concerto Quasi Una Fantasia

“Those Viennese philosophers who argued about the meaning of our dreams in the cafes of the old city were right, weren’t they? In the end it was all about sex—even here—where ever here was.”
― Howard Jay Smith, Beethoven In Love; Opus 139: Concerto Quasi Una Fantasia

“Whereas most keyboardists back then sat up straight like a squirrel with paws perched on keys as if at prayer, Louis, after first quietly and serenely nodding his head in the direction of the sheet music, veritably threw himself into every gesture as if he was wrestling the very soul of the music out of the organ’s pipes.”
― Howard Jay Smith, Beethoven In Love; Opus 139: Concerto Quasi Una Fantasia