Quotes about Mozart

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. Votes: 5

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. Votes: 4

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. Votes: 4

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. Votes: 4

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. Votes: 4

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think? Votes: 4

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe. Votes: 4

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.' Votes: 4

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious. Votes: 4

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. Votes: 4

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form. Votes: 4

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart. Votes: 4

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. Votes: 4

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages. Votes: 4

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons. Votes: 4

When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered. Votes: 4

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. Votes: 4

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another. Votes: 4

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' Votes: 4

Mozart is sweet sunshine. Votes: 3

Mozart is my first strength." Votes: 3

Mozart is the musical Christ. Votes: 3

I love stuff like Mozart. Votes: 3

I love stuff like Mozart." Votes: 3

Mozart is my first strength. Votes: 3

Play Mozart in memory of me. Votes: 3

Messi is the Mozart of football. Votes: 3

Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao" Votes: 3

Mozart is the incarnation of music. Votes: 3

Mozart 's music is very mysterious. Votes: 3

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing." Votes: 3

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries." Votes: 3

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair. Votes: 3

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. Votes: 3

Mozart's music gives us permission to live. Votes: 3

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven. Votes: 3

Mozart died too late rather than too soon. Votes: 3

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing. Votes: 3

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human. Votes: 3

Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution. Votes: 3

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human." Votes: 3

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. Votes: 3

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human. Votes: 3

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters. Votes: 3

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year. Votes: 3

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart. Votes: 3

Mozart is waiting for me. Pablo is waiting for me." Votes: 3

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled. Votes: 3

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. Votes: 3

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning. Votes: 3

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement. Votes: 3

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation. Votes: 3

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. Votes: 3

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. Votes: 3

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man. Votes: 3

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius." Votes: 3

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven." Votes: 3

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody." Votes: 3

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing." Votes: 3

A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide." Votes: 3

A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide. Votes: 3

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing. Votes: 3

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. Votes: 3

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. Votes: 3

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart! Votes: 3

Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job. Votes: 3

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival. Votes: 3

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song." Votes: 3

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune. Votes: 3

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. Votes: 3

Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. Votes: 3

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. Votes: 3

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart. Votes: 3

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. Votes: 3

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. Votes: 3

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked. Votes: 3

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart. Votes: 3

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven. Votes: 3

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. Votes: 3

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it. Votes: 3

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all." Votes: 3

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. Votes: 3

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart. Votes: 3

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. Votes: 3

Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside. Votes: 3

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy. Votes: 3

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is." Votes: 3

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy." Votes: 3

The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. Votes: 3

I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Votes: 3

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time. Votes: 3

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. Votes: 3

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart." Votes: 3

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. Votes: 3

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. Votes: 3

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto" Votes: 3

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto Votes: 3

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. Votes: 3

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. Votes: 3

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics Votes: 3

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. Votes: 3

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. Votes: 3

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists." Votes: 3

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. Votes: 3

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! Votes: 3

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy. Votes: 3

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them? Votes: 3

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine Votes: 3

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man." Votes: 3

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. Votes: 3

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. Votes: 3

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. Votes: 3

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." Votes: 3

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician. Votes: 3

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." Votes: 3

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't." Votes: 3

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart? Votes: 3

But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not." Votes: 3

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. Votes: 3

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?" Votes: 3

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. Votes: 3

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range, Votes: 3

I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy. Votes: 3

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge. Votes: 3

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature." Votes: 3

I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy." Votes: 3

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. Votes: 3

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos. Votes: 3

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year." Votes: 3

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child. Votes: 3

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come." Votes: 3

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. Votes: 3

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. Votes: 3

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity. Votes: 3

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. Votes: 3

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. Votes: 3

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four. Votes: 3

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. Votes: 3

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression. Votes: 3

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels." Votes: 3

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. Votes: 3

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him. Votes: 3

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'" Votes: 3

The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. Votes: 3

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. Votes: 3

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct. Votes: 3

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food." Votes: 3

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. Votes: 3

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart. Votes: 3

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. Votes: 3

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. Votes: 3

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.' Votes: 3

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense. Votes: 3

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. Votes: 3

Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing. Votes: 3

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death. Votes: 3

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. Votes: 3

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls! Votes: 3

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? Votes: 3

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him. Votes: 3

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration." Votes: 3

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart. Votes: 3

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D." Votes: 3

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath. Votes: 3

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. Votes: 3

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day. Votes: 3

By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition Votes: 3

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work." Votes: 3

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work. Votes: 3

I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart. Votes: 3

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord. Votes: 3

I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew. Votes: 3

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another. Votes: 3

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger" Votes: 3

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation. Votes: 3

Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be. Votes: 3

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can." Votes: 3

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger Votes: 3

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. Votes: 3

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music." Votes: 3

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece. Votes: 3

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music. Votes: 3

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life. Votes: 3

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered." Votes: 3

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered. Votes: 3

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator. Votes: 3

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert. Votes: 3

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me. Votes: 3

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous. Votes: 3

Louis Armstrong on Mondays, Frank Sinatra on Wednesdays, Glenn Miller on Fridays, and Mozart on Sundays. Unless it was raining. If it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday." Votes: 3

In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite. Votes: 3

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern. Votes: 3

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too. Votes: 3

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous." Votes: 3

What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me. Votes: 3

The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work. Votes: 3

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?" Votes: 3

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about? Votes: 3

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music. Votes: 3

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music." Votes: 3

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread. Votes: 3

Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that is so peculiarly his own. Votes: 3

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it. Votes: 3

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces. Votes: 3

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. Votes: 3

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. Votes: 3

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word." Votes: 3

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe." Votes: 3

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word. Votes: 3

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!" Votes: 3

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good! Votes: 3

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together. Votes: 3

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time. Votes: 3

The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually "developed late," since he didn't produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years." Votes: 3

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. Votes: 3

His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. (on Freddy Adu) Votes: 3

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life. Votes: 3

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him. Votes: 3

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time. Votes: 3

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart." Votes: 3

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!." Votes: 3

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art. Votes: 3

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!. Votes: 3

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. Votes: 3

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end. Votes: 3

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music. Votes: 3

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe. Votes: 3

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end." Votes: 3

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. Votes: 3

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own. Votes: 3

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world. Votes: 3

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury. Votes: 3

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles." Votes: 3

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. Votes: 3

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand ... Votes: 3

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages." Votes: 3

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage. Votes: 3

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage Votes: 3

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise. Votes: 3

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles. Votes: 3

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy. Votes: 3

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong." Votes: 3

My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one! Votes: 3

If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively. Votes: 3

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends. Votes: 3

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising. Votes: 3

Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more? Votes: 3

Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard. Votes: 3

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines. Votes: 3

I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart. Votes: 3

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Votes: 3

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me. Votes: 3

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed. Votes: 3

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach. Votes: 3

Miracle I have just listened to this symphony which Mozart dashed off in one day and it had enough wild and crazy joy to last forever, whatever forever is Mozart came as close as possible to that." Votes: 3

The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, of Mozart, of the stars. For an hour I could breathe again and live and face existence, without having to suffer torment, fear or shame." Votes: 3

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them. Votes: 3

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. Votes: 3

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. Votes: 3

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that." Votes: 3

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that. Votes: 3

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition." (Said to Leopold Mozart) Votes: 3

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it. Votes: 3

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition." (Said to Leopold Mozart)" Votes: 3

Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms. Votes: 3

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history. Votes: 3

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say. Votes: 3

Lombardi: There's a whole series of beautiful Mozart and Wagner records, in still very pristine condition. But, never a Bible. Until now. May I ask what condition it's in?Eli: It's beat up. But it will do the job." Votes: 3

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it! Votes: 3

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles. Votes: 3

When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight. Votes: 3

The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart. Votes: 3

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?. Votes: 3

I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart. Votes: 3

If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years. Votes: 3

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes. Votes: 3

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound. Votes: 3

I would traverse not once more, but often the hell of my inner being. One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too." Votes: 3

You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration." Votes: 3

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it and where it would be performed. So you can't really separate the creation of genius from the appreciation of it. Votes: 3

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters. Votes: 3

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Votes: 3

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart." Votes: 3

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved." Votes: 3

She'd never seen a boy with hands like that, with long,delicate fingers, beautiful but still masculine. His fingernails were long too, almost crystalline,tapered to points. They were the kind of hands you'd expect to see under lace cuffs, like Mozart orsomething." Votes: 3

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. Votes: 3

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. Votes: 3

Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide." Votes: 3

Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it. Votes: 3

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it." Votes: 3

At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things. But there are no postcards of this. Of life." Votes: 3

So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms. Votes: 3

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart. Votes: 3

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages. Votes: 3

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know. Votes: 3

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?" Votes: 3

Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you've lost your passion, or that you can't identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true. Votes: 3

Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter. Votes: 3

Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. Votes: 3

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes. Votes: 3

Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it magnetized in the first place? There has to be a seed there. In the case of Vienna of about 1780, it was this deep-seated love of music. Votes: 3

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes." Votes: 3

The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen. Votes: 3

When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy. Votes: 3

It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself. Votes: 3

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre. Votes: 3

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it. Votes: 3

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it." Votes: 3

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it. Votes: 3

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone. Votes: 3

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles "“ I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that "“ I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life "“ This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours Votes: 3

Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing." Votes: 3

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner. Votes: 2

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed. Votes: 2

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak. Votes: 2

I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony. Votes: 2

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. Votes: 2

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other. Harmony is the notes that Mozart didn't give you, but somehow the contradiction of his notes suggest that. All contradictions of his notes suggest the harmony. Votes: 2

I have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the wavesthese i would like to seebut far more than sight i wish for my ears to be openedthe voice of a friendthe imaginations of mozartlife without these is darker by far than blindness" Votes: 1

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner." Votes: 1

A story went around that someone had asked Mozart how he intended to refute his detractors."I will refute them with new works," he said.It was a confident, valiant thing for him to say, everyone thought. I thought so too, when I invented the story; and I still believe it today. (172)" Votes: 1

And if Mozart is for Sundays, who do you listen to the rest of the week?""Louis Armstrong on Mondays, Frank Sinatra on Wednesdays. And Glenn Miller on Fridays, unless it's raining. If it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday.""What about Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday?" I asked."Those days are quiet. Unless it's raining." Votes: 1

I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'" Votes: 1

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old." Votes: 1

The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try. What good are explanations? There is no possibility of explaining how such a work [Mozart's Requiem, in the instance] could ever have come into being. (The same holds true for certain poems, which should not be analyzed either.)" Votes: 1

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter." Votes: 1

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page." Votes: 1

We'll win, of course," he saidYou don't want that," said the demonWhy not, pray?""Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean." Aziraphale looked taken abackWell, I should think-" he beganTwo," said CrowleyElgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?" Votes: 1