Mozart's Quotes

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27. About eleven minutes later he was writing his own music. — Ron David

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

Jacques wants a pancake shaped like Mozart's Symphony No. 40! In G minor! — Michelle Cuevas

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern. — Cecilia Bartoli

To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. — Felicity Kendal

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

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. — Karl Barth

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. — Grant Achatz

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. — Virgil Thomson

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

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

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven. — Wendy Wasserstein

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human. — Colin R. Davis

Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be. — Roger Daltrey

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

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious. — Anthony Hopkins

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

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

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

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. — Rebecca West

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

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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's music gives us permission to live. — John Updike

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. — Leonard Cohen

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. — Andre Rieu

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

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.' — Simon McBurney

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. — Douglas Adams

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. — Dave Barry

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

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness. — Lily Koppel

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe. — Albert Einstein

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. — Fran Lebowitz

A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide. — Kailash Kher

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked. — Gustavo Dudamel

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him. — Rose Macaulay

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. — Karl Barth

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it. — Leonard Bernstein

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

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. — Lukas Foss

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

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island. — Shane Smith

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart ... well, except for the whole music thing. — James Dashner

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 tide
Hiding 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

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

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

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. — Camille Paglia

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart