Amadeus Quote by Bob Mondello

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie,…

— Cecilia Bartoli

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

— Lukas Foss

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

— Frank P. Ryan

“He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer…

— Sangu Mandanna

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them…

— Emmanuel Macron

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that…

— Tim Curry

“On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Ariel Durant

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

— W.H. Auden

“He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is the creative…

— G.K. Chesterton