Mozart Quotes

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

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.

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.

I love stuff like Mozart.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

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

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

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

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

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.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'