Mozart Quotes

“Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao”

— Dai Sijie

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

— Martha Nussbaum

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

— Hilary Hahn

Mozart is the incarnation of music.

— Joseph Haydn

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

— Charles Gounod

Mozart is my first strength.

— Danielle de Niese

“There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.”

— Fran Lebowitz

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

— Richard Wagner

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

— Robert Schumann

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

— Camille Saint-Saens

“Everything has been composed, just not yet written down. LETTER TO LEOPOLD MOZART [1780]”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

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

— Robert Morris

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

— Albert Einstein

When I started, I thought Mozart and La Boheme would be the maximum for me.

— Mirella Freni

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

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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

— Lukas Foss

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Ian Shoales

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that…

— Karl Barth

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

— Franz Schubert

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

— Ernest Newman

“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself,”

— Walter Isaacson

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art.…

— Alexandra Stoddard

“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet…

— Peter Shaffer

“heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this…

— Karl Barth

When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I…

— William Orbit

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages,…

— Stephen Spender

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first…

— George Brandis

“Mozart’s earliest symphonies, brief works written when he was just eight, hew closely to the style of Johann Christian Bach, with whom…

— Geoff Colvin

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10…

— Carlo Grante

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…

— Miguel Nicolelis

“Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn’t dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were considered so valuable that people rooted…

— Sam Kean

“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of…

— Hermann Hesse

“He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of time…

— Karl Barth

“No one can get reall drunk on a novle or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven's night, Bartok's…

— Kundera Milan

“What Einstein appreciated in Mozart and Bach was the clear architectural structure that made their music seem “deterministic” and, like his own…

— Walter Isaacson

“Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. But what is…

— Carolyn Keene

“For all his claims to be just a propagandist, [Bernard Shaw's] writing has an effect nearer to that of music than most…

— W.H. Auden

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;…

— Robert Greenberg