Ludwig van Beethoven

You two are exhausting. I compose one competent thing and suddenly it's a crime scene for ego.

Coming from the man who looked at genius and said, let me make this administrative.

History's final verdict: Mozart got the sparkle, I got the scream, and Salieri got mentioned anyway.

Loud is not a personality, Ludwig. Some of us can write 40 bars without sounding like the furniture is angry.

And some of us can finish a quartet without acting like the budget was personally insulting.

I can count to four, I just prefer doing it before breakfast.

Thank you, Haydn. Finally, someone in this thread who can count to four.

That explains why your work sounds so polished and your ego sounds so loud.

Wolfgang writes like he's being timed, Joseph edits like he's being paid by the centimeter.

Both of you are exhausting, but Ludwig does have a point about standards.

Standards is one word for arriving late, glaring at everyone, and turning every polite dinner into a concerto.

He says that like being universally admired excuses the trombone behavior.

Respectfully, this is why I learned everything from you and still kept my distance.

Say what you want, but nobody leaves my room unchanged; that’s branding.

You wrote poems about feelings; I made feelings file a noise complaint.