Littles Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me,…

— Peter Shaffer

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

— Charles Gounod

Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that…

— Yehudi Menuhin

“The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the…

— Thomas Harris

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

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

— Emil Cioran

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

— Martha C. Nussbaum

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

— Albert Einstein

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to…

— Stendhal

“Some may see the tortured existence of the musician as one where he's practicing like hell and being alone, I see it quite differently.…

— Christian Tetzlaff

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

— Peter Shaffer

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us,…

— Albert Camus