Amadeus Quote by Ian Shoales

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

— Hilary Hahn

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

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

— Steve Lacy

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

— Anthony Hopkins

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing.

— James Dashner

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in…

— Cecilia Bartoli

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can…

— Charles Hazlewood

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

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

— Fran Lebowitz

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

— Rose Macaulay

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

— Simon Rattle