Five years Quote by Lukas Foss

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

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

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even…

— Emanuel Ax

I wrote 'Threnody,' then I wrote several works where I changed my music completely.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

“As the lives of their characters develop, they end up on paths that writers could not possibly have foreseen—and hence give the impression of…

— Cass R. Sunstein

“Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who directed the opera and dance scenes for the film Amadeus, has this to say about the film’s portrait of Mozart:…

— Mark McGuinness

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

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull?…

— David Ogilvy

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.…

— Billy Joel

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

— Lukas Foss

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

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like…

— Lukas Foss