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I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute,… — Joseph Haydn
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was… — Igor Stravinsky
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his… — Twyla Tharp
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death. — Ludwig van Beethoven
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot… — Arnold Schoenberg
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. — Gioachino Rossini
Mozart died too late rather than too soon. — Glenn Gould
If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician. — Frederick Delius
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and… — Oswald Spengler
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he… — Roger McGuinn
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It… — Camille Paglia
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. — Frederic Chopin
I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a… — Cecilia Bartoli
Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your passion, or that you… — Steven Pressfield
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 would… — Charlie Parker
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. — Henry Mitchell
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger — Franz Grillparzer
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful… — Robert Greenberg
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg
I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year. — Maurice Jarre
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. — Artur Schnabel
Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. — Artur Schnabel
Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not… — Lukas Foss
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas

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