Mozart Quotes

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

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

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

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

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!.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

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.

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

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.

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

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