Character Quote by Cecilia Bartoli

I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone…

— Thomas Lennon

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

— Maurice Baring

Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.

— Ian Shoales

Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he…

— Cecilia Bartoli

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them…

— Emmanuel Macron

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

— Alexander Kluge

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else…

— Lukas Foss

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

— Albert Einstein

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More…

— Charles Hazlewood

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his…

— Maria Luisa Bombal

I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself…

— Stephen Fry

“For all his claims to be just a propagandist, [Bernard Shaw's] writing has an effect nearer to that of music than most of those…

— W.H. Auden