Able Quote by Romain Rolland

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

— Richard Wagner

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

— Marc Chagall

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

— Joseph Goebbels

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

— Albert Einstein

“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

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

— Camille Saint-Saens

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

— Shirley Manson

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

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

— Peter Shaffer

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

— Fran Lebowitz

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

— Charles Gounod

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

— Peter Shaffer