Cliche Quote by Thomas Ades

“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichés…

— Thomas Ades

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

— Claudio Arrau

There are so many clichés in the world, especially in music, that it's a never-ending creative font to just bring two of them together…

— Stephin Merritt

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause…

— Doug Liman

“Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn’t matter…

— Brandon Sanderson

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

— Camille Saint-Saens

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

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

— Harsha Bhogle

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

— Franz Schubert

“Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.”

— Rae Armantrout

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

— Daryl Hall

Most of my cliches aren't original.

— Chuck Knox