Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.

“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

— Guler Sabanci

My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as…

— Marie Lu

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is…

— Andrew Denton

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

— Simon Rattle

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up…

— Henri Rabaud

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the…

— Rebecca West

“Lombardi: There's a whole series of beautiful Mozart and Wagner records, in still very pristine condition. But, never a Bible. Until now. May I…

— Book of Eli Movie

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

— Robert Morris

Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.

— Roger Daltrey

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this…

— Keith Johnstone

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

— Danielle de Niese

Alfred Schnittke was an important contemporary composer, and he lived in Germany, but no one here has heard of him. Everyone has heard of…

— Georg Baselitz

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

— Geoff Colvin

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of…

— Charles Hazlewood