Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“miracle I have just listened to this symphony which Mozart dashed off in one day and it had enough wild and crazy… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart? — Wolfgang Hildesheimer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life,… — Wolfgang Hildesheimer Copy Share Image
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north,… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career,… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity.… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
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,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We… — Lukas Foss 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
If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning. — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27. About eleven minutes later he was writing his own music.” — Ron David Copy Share Image
Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.” — Frank P. Ryan Copy Share Image
My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.' — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge. — Gioachino Rossini Copy Share Image
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. — Jack Black Copy Share Image
When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
“[W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]” — Jasper Rees Copy Share Image