Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant…

Mozart 's music is very mysterious.

— Walter J. Turner

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

— Karl Barth

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…

— Simon McBurney

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…

— Park Chan-wook

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

— Karl Barth

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— James Dashner

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

— Isaac Stern

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

— Peter Shaffer

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

— Leonard Bernstein

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

— Karl Barth

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…

— Karl Barth

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

— John Updike

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.…

— Gabriel Faure

“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