Composer Quote by Camille Saint-Saens

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

— Marc Chagall

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

— Richard Wagner

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

— Romain Rolland

B.B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.

— Ilana Mercer

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

— Neville Marriner

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

— Fran Lebowitz

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

— Peter Shaffer

“The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the…

— Lloyd Alexander

“music is the worst of them - roiling and boiling - overly emotionalized on the one hand, overly intellectuallized on the other. Bach and…

— Timothy Findley

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

— Walter Isaacson

“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 combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

— Roy Blount, Jr