Mozart Quotes
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Mozart Quotes & Sayings
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even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age four, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. The
— Jeff Atwood
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart is the incarnation of music.
— Joseph Haydn
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
— Georg Solti
Play Mozart in memory of me.
— Frederic Chopin
Mozart is the musical Christ.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math.
— John Medina
The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Melody is the essence of music.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
— Felicity Kendal
Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.
— Richard Wagner
Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
— Robert Schumann
Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
— Grant Achatz
What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
— Tom Lehrer
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
— John Cale
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition
— Bedrich Smetana
You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak - that I think about it all day long - that I like experimenting - studying - reflecting.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
— Anne Stevenson
Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
— Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
— Colin R. Davis
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.
— Aaron Copland
As I love Mannheim , Mannheim loves me.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
— Charles Gounod
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
— Kiana Tom
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
— Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.
— Emil Cioran
All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.
— Charles Gounod
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
— Johannes Brahms
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
— John Updike
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
— Johannes Brahms
The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
— Leonard Cohen
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
— Edvard Grieg
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range,
— Artur Schnabel
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
— Gioachino Rossini
Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Now there is music from which a man can learn something.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
— Camille Saint-Saens
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!
— Robert Gottlieb
A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
— Damien Chazelle
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.
— Peter Drucker
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
— Isaac Stern
I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.
— Alexandra Stoddard
My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.
— Artur Schnabel
I choose such notes that love one another.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart's music was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.
— Albert Einstein
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
— Simon McBurney
Our riches, being in our brains, die with us ... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
— Seymour Stein
I really do not aim at any originality.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
My dear sister! I'm amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tideHiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine — Aesop Rock
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
— Henry Mitchell
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
— Paul McCartney
What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!
— Franz Schubert
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. — Frederic Chopin
Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution.
— Ferruccio Busoni
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
— Gordon Bethune
He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto
— Andy Stanton
Mozart 's music is very mysterious.
— Walter J. Turner
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
— Artur Schnabel
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
— Aldous Huxley
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.
— Condoleezza Rice
The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
— Wolfgang Hildesheimer
I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
— Jack Black
Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.
— Allan Bloom
Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
— Vanessa Carlton
Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
— Victor Borge
