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
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
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
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! — Robert Gottlieb 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
When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
“heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you… — Park Chan-wook 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
The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of… — Gian Carlo Menotti 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
“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet… — Peter Shaffer 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
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
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
