Music Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“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

“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

“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

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

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

— Robert Schumann

“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

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

— Tom Lehrer

“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

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

— Tom Lehrer

“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One…

— Anonymous

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

— Fran Lebowitz