The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. — Vanessa Mae Copy Share Image
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“This day of torment, of craziness, of foolishness—only love can make it end in happiness and joy. —W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details… — Maria Luisa Bombal Copy Share Image
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Einstein was very attracted to Mozart. There's a mathematical, classical structure to the music, and I think he identified with that very… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
“Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece… — Claudio Arrau Copy Share Image
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored… — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
My iPhone has become rather precious because of all my music on it; every night, we set it for 20 minutes before… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their… — Seymour Stein Copy Share Image
My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a… — James Brown Copy Share Image
As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy -… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced… — John Medina Copy Share Image
When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music.… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
