Believe Quote by Martin Seligman

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More…

— Charles Hazlewood

“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

“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

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

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You…

— Carlo Grante

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

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

— Marc Chagall

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

— Richard Wagner

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart…

— Ernest Newman

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

“The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he had been…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

— Allan Bloom