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“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

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

— Fran Lebowitz

“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

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

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this…

— Keith Johnstone

“Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.”

— Rae Armantrout

“And you listen to some of that meticulous Mozart stuff and Vivaldi and you realize that they knew that too. They knew when to…

— Keith Richards

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

— Peter Shaffer

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

“Too bad. And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died--in his thirties--of kidney disease. And had been buried in an unmarked…

— Philip K. Dick

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

— Marc Chagall