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One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and… — Hermann Hesse
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. — Morton Feldman
Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be. — Roger Daltrey
If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play… — Kurt Masur
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur… — Richard Dawkins
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson
If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen… — Thomas Beecham
It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock.… — Gerhard Richter
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I… — Kathleen Battle
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without… — Emanuel Ax
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. — John Cale
Mozart is expressing something that is more than human. — Colin Davis
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if… — Jane Asher
Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside. — Bruce Springsteen
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. — Lukas Foss
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would… — Lukas Foss
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.… — Sara Zarr
The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. — Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart… — David Ogilvy
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony… — Isaac Asimov
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven.… — Stephen Spender
Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job. — Kate Bush
I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all… — Jamie Foxx
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of… — George Steiner

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