He once wrote to a friend about his commitment to music and said: “People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.”Genius Takes Time And Extraordinary Effort1.7K51Thomas OppongMatthew WellsFollowJul 25, 2017 · 1 min readEven Mozart struggled, at some level, to reach his level of genius.