Mozart Quotes

Mozart is my first strength.

— Danielle de Niese

“There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.”

— Fran Lebowitz

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

— Richard Wagner

Mozart is the incarnation of music.

— Joseph Haydn

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

— Hilary Hahn

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

— Charles Gounod

“Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao”

— Dai Sijie

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

— Martha Nussbaum

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

— Camille Paglia

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

— Wendy Wasserstein

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

— Ben Stein

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.

— Shane Smith

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

— Dave Barry

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

— George Szell

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.

— Simon McBurney

“This day of torment, of craziness, of foolishness—only love can make it end in happiness and joy. —W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

— Allan Bloom

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

— Aldous Huxley

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

— Frederic Chopin

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

— Peter Drucker

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's…

— Leonard Bernstein

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

Youre so wrong that it makes you right, Keep me wide awake a night, I cant sleep now I know youre around...…

— Kiara

Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black…

— Gabriel Faure

When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The…

— Eric Whitacre

“The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils…

— Wanda Landowska

Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be…

— Benjamin Clementine

“For all his claims to be just a propagandist, [Bernard Shaw's] writing has an effect nearer to that of music than most…

— W.H. Auden

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;…

— Robert Greenberg

“Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. But what is…

— Carolyn Keene

“No one can get reall drunk on a novle or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven's night, Bartok's…

— Kundera Milan

“What Einstein appreciated in Mozart and Bach was the clear architectural structure that made their music seem “deterministic” and, like his own…

— Walter Isaacson

“Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn’t dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were considered so valuable that people rooted…

— Sam Kean

“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of…

— Hermann Hesse

“He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of time…

— Karl Barth