Analysis Quote by Elfriede Jelinek

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

— Allan Bloom

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

“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

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

— Michael Arden

“There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.”

— Fran Lebowitz

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

— Frank P. Ryan

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

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

— Johannes Brahms

“A story went around that someone had asked Mozart how he intended to refute his detractors. "I will refute them with new works," he…

— Joan Wickersham

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

— Lukas Foss

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.”

— Roland Barthes