Mozart Quotes

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

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

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.

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!.

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

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

I love stuff like Mozart.

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

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

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

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

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

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.

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.

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.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.