Art Quote by Edward Abbey

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their…

— Dave Brubeck

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

— Edward Abbey

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

— Kenneth Branagh

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between…

— Aaron Copland

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

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace…

— Peter Shaffer

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

— Roy Blount, Jr

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

— Peter Shaffer

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

“People marvel at the genius of Mozart because he supposedly wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at the age of three and composed his first…

— Charles Martin