Best Mozart Words
181 Mozart quotes by 154 unique authors
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I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then…
— Henry Louis Gates
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I love stuff like Mozart.
— Robin Gibb
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Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's.…
— Lukas Foss
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Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by…
— Mark Helprin
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People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.
— Anthony Hopkins
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Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made…
— Alicia Keys
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It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
— Tom Lehrer
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
— Vanessa Mae
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Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
— Shirley Manson
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Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
— Neville Marriner
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Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
— Ernest Newman
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Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
— Camille Paglia
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Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
— Andre Rieu
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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's…
— Maurice Sendak
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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These…
— Maurice Sendak
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
— Ben Stein
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that…
— Twyla Tharp
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I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
— Kiana Tom
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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth…
— Rebecca West
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I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some…
— Colm Toibin
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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization…
— Susan Sontag
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No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ.…
— Henry Miller
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I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that –…
— Jack Kerouac
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart,…
— Jasper Fforde
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