It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. — Guler Sabanci Copy Share Image
If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician. — Frederick Delius Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart. — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.' — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Alfred Schnittke was an important contemporary composer, and he lived in Germany, but no one here has heard of him. Everyone has… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off… — Thomas Hampson 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
“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
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
The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils… — Wanda Landowska 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
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
