Equivalent Quote by Fran Lebowitz

“On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Frank P. Ryan

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

— Johannes Brahms

“Everything has been composed, just not yet written down. LETTER TO LEOPOLD MOZART [1780]”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of his letters,…

— Hermann Hesse

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

— Marc Chagall

“Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.”

— Rae Armantrout

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

— Anonymous

“You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart”

— Bryce Courtenay

“But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.”

— Andre Brink

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

— Peter Shaffer

“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself,”

— Walter Isaacson