Creativity Quote by Keith Johnstone

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

— Peter Shaffer

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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

— Marc Chagall

“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

Mozart is the incarnation of music.

— Joseph Haydn

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

— Camille Saint-Saens

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

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

— Robert Schumann

“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