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Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. -- Andre Rieu
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. -- Vanessa Carlton
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. -- Camille Paglia
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy. -- Shirley Manson
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. -- Isaac Stern
Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think? -- Robert Morris
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe. -- Albert Einstein
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. -- Jack Black
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
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
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. -- Karl Barth
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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. -- Karl Barth
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
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages. -- Marcus du Sautoy
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons. -- Miguel Nicolelis
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered. -- Park Chan-wook
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. -- Andrew Denton
Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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.' -- Henry Louis Gates
Mozart is sweet sunshine. -- Antonin Dvorak
I love stuff like Mozart. -- Robin Gibb
I love stuff like Mozart." -- Robin Gibb
Mozart is my first strength. -- Danielle de Niese
Mozart is my first strength." -- Danielle de Niese
Mozart is the musical Christ. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mozart is the incarnation of music. -- Joseph Haydn
Mozart 's music is very mysterious. -- Walter J. Turner
Play Mozart in memory of me. -- Frederic Chopin
Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao" -- Sijie Dai
Messi is the Mozart of football. -- Zinedine Zidane
Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries." -- Rae Armantrout
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven. -- Richard Wagner
There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. -- Fran Lebowitz
Mozart's music gives us permission to live. -- John Updike
There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing." -- Frances Ann Lebowitz
Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair. -- Charles Gounod
A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mozart died too late rather than too soon. -- Glenn Gould
Mozart is expressing something that is more than human." -- Colin R. Davis
Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters. -- Artur Schnabel
Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution. -- Ferruccio Busoni
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. -- Felicity Kendal
Mozart is expressing something that is more than human. -- Colin R. Davis
Mozart is expressing something that is more than human. -- Colin R. Davis
I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year. -- Maurice Jarre
Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning. -- Simon McBurney
Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement. -- George Szell
Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart. -- Karl Barth
Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled. -- Richard Wagner
Mozart is waiting for me. Pablo is waiting for me." -- Hermann Hesse
Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven." -- Wendy Wasserstein
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. -- Lukas Foss
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius." -- Lukas Foss
We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man. -- Albert Einstein
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. -- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody." -- Andre Rieu
A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide." -- Kailash Kher
A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide. -- Kailash Kher
Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing." -- James Dashner
Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing. -- James Dashner
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. -- George Bernard Shaw
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song." -- Vanessa Carlton
Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job. -- Kate Bush
What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart! -- Franz Schubert
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune. -- Kenneth Branagh
The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. -- Peter Shaffer
Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival. -- Billy Cannon
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. -- Henry Mitchell
Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. -- Camille Saint-Saens
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart. -- Ben Stein
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. -- Gioachino Rossini
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. -- Marc Chagall
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. -- Charles Gounod
When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked. -- Gustavo Dudamel
As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart. -- Steve Reich
Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. -- Aldous Huxley
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it. -- Leonard Bernstein
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all." -- Vanessa Mae
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. -- Vanessa Mae
That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart. -- E. O. Wilson
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. -- Dave Barry
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy." -- Shirley Manson
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is." -- Joshua Bell
Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside. -- Bruce Springsteen
The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. -- Henri Rabaud
I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. -- Maurice Sendak
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time. -- Richard Hyung-ki Joo
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. -- Morton Feldman
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. -- Kiana Tom
He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto" -- Andy Stanton
He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto -- Andy Stanton
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart." -- Kiana Tom
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. -- Guler Sabanci
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists." -- Artur Schnabel
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. -- Richard Wagner
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. -- Artur Schnabel
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine -- Aesop Rock
If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man." -- Alexander Kluge
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. -- Karl Barth
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics -- Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them? -- Robert Schumann
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. -- John Edensor Littlewood
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! -- Michael Tilson Thomas
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy. -- Larry Wilmore
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." -- Neville Marriner
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. -- Tom Lehrer
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. -- Neville Marriner
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. -- Frederic Chopin
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." -- Tom Lehrer
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range, -- Artur Schnabel
Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?" -- Robert Morris
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't." -- Isaac Stern
But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not." -- André Brink
How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart? -- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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