Born Quote by Robert Schumann

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

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

— Johannes Brahms

“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

“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

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

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

— Richard Wagner

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

— Frank P. Ryan

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

— Lukas Foss

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

— Alexander Kluge

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

— Fran Lebowitz

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

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