“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.” — Frank P. Ryan Copy Share Image
My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.' — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. — Aaron Copland 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
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven… — Edward Abbey 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
The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god,… — Alfred Einstein 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
Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is… — Walter J. Turner 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
“She’d never seen a boy with hands like that, with long, delicate fingers, beautiful but still masculine. His fingernails were long too,… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I… — Santiago Cabrera Copy Share Image
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life,… — Wolfgang Hildesheimer Copy Share Image
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning. — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27. About eleven minutes later he was writing his own music.” — Ron David Copy Share Image
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy -… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr 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
Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music.… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
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