Best Mozart Thoughts
181 Mozart quotes by 154 unique authors
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There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.
— Peter Shaffer
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I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
— Felicity Kendal
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is…
— Karen DeCrow
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My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
— Simon McBurney
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Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.
— Simon McBurney
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
— Damien Chazelle
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It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
— Tom Lehrer
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
— Karl Barth
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Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
— Steve Lacy
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All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.
— Unknown Author
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The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
— Joshua Bell
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent…
— Wallace Shawn
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Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something…
— Daniel Tammet
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Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
— Grant Achatz
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Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
— Victor Borge
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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
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Youre so wrong that it makes you right, Keep me wide awake a night, I cant sleep now I know youre around... I lie listen…
— Kiara
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Now that she's back in the atmosphere With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey She acts like summer and walks like rain Reminds…
— Train
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I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up…
— Martin Kippenberger
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If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
— Alexander Kluge
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Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?
— Robert Morris
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Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.
— Wendy Wasserstein
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He make my pussy sing like it's a mozart. He say the pussy pretty, it look like show art.
— Nicki Minaj
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I got the nerds rappin' hard shit, dummies rappin' smart shit. Mozart meets Humphrey Bogart with this from the heart shit.
— J. Cole
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There is no way that I could say that I am going to be Mahler or Mozart. But no one is. And if this is…
— Rufus Wainwright
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