Amadeus Quote by Lukas Foss

“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

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

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

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

— Camille Saint-Saens

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

— Alexander Kluge

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it and where…

— Eric Weiner

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

— Maurice Baring

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

— Robert Schumann

“Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don’t have anything more than you — they have something less. What they lack are the self-imposed…

— Derek Rydall

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human…

— Edward Abbey

Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like 'Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.

— Ian Shoales