Age Quote by James Keller

I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a…

— Isaac Asimov

“Mozart’s earliest symphonies, brief works written when he was just eight, hew closely to the style of Johann Christian Bach, with whom he was…

— Geoff Colvin

“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

People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's…

— William Shatner

“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far…

— Robert Fritz

“The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he had been…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I love the early sonatas; I love the early Mozart, period. I'm really fond of that moment when he was either emulating Haydn or…

— Glenn Gould

“Ambitious parents who are currently playing the ‘Baby Mozart’ video for their toddlers may be disappointed to learn that Mozart became Mozart by working…

— Geoff Colvin

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

— Michael Arden

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

— Rita Dove

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

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Edward Abbey