Contrast Quote by Maurice Baring

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

— Lukas Foss

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

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

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with…

— Stephen Spender

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

— Robert Schumann

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

— Anonymous

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

— Allan Bloom

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

— Richard Wagner

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

— Gioachino Rossini

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

— Anonymous