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Mozart Quotes by Lukas Foss
- 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…
- To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
- 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…
- 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.…
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- In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what… — Maurice Baring
- It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that… — Karl Barth
- If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. — Jack Black
- When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that… — Dave Brubeck
- If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. — Vanessa Carlton
- Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,… — Martin Seligman
- The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always… — Albert Einstein
- Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe. — Albert Einstein
- Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other… — Unknown Author
- But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the… — Ezra Pound