Mozart Quotes · Page 5

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

— Shirley Manson

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that…

— Karl Barth

Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like 'Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.

— Ian Shoales

“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

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art.…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

— Ernest Newman

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem…

— Ariel Durant

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

— Edvard Grieg

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

— Rose Macaulay

The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented…

— Bob Mondello

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know…

— Charles Hazlewood

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

— Andrew Denton

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

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

— Book of Eli Movie

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10…

— Carlo Grante

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

— Geoff Colvin

I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even…

— Anonymous

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

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so…

— Cecilia Bartoli

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

— Anthony Hopkins

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the…

— Anonymous

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

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

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

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no…

— Lukas Foss

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

— Marie Lu

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

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

— Neville Marriner

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

— Henri Rabaud

Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it…

— Sarah Brightman

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

— Gioachino Rossini

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that…

— Dave Brubeck

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

— Jack Black

“[W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]”

— Jasper Rees

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the…

— Artur Schnabel

“Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.”

— Emil Cioran

I always used to listen to quite a bit of classical music because my dad liked it, and if you've got any…

— Mick Hucknall

In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only…

— Victor Borge