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181 Mozart quotes by 154 unique authors

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? — Gordon Bethune
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, that's… — Peter Shaffer
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense. — Georg Solti
Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos. — Victor Borge
Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to… — Lynn Freed
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is… — Keith Johnstone
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never… — Branford Marsalis
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In… — Alfred Einstein
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart. — Robert Schumann
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. — Marc Chagall
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a… — James Keller
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is… — Brigid Brophy
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or… — E. O. Wilson
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me.… — Franz Liszt
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something… — Andrew Denton
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. — Paul McCartney
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They… — Billy Joel
When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked. — Gustavo Dudamel
We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and can participate to… — Russell Targ
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually… — George Shearing
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart… — Sean Lennon
They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for… — Frederick Buechner
A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide. — Kailash Kher
Messi is the Mozart of football. — Zinedine Zidane
My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back… — Dave Matthews

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