Mozart Quotes

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. (Neville Marriner)
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. View quote
Vanessa Carlton
Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense. View quote
Georg Solti
Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled. View quote
Richard Wagner
Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. View quote
Artur Schnabel
Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. View quote
Victor Borge
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egoism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. View quote
Camille Paglia
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. View quote
Morton Feldman
Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter. View quote
Eugène Delacroix
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child. (Joseph Goebbels)
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. View quote
Douglas Adams
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal. View quote
George Steiner
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. View quote
Ernest Newman
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. View quote
Alfred Einstein
Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. View quote
Andre Rieu
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. View quote
Andrew Denton
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. View quote
Anne Stevenson
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time. View quote
Charles Hazlewood
Mozart is expressing something that is more than human. View quote
Colin Davis
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. (Emanuel Ax)
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. View quote
Kiana Tom
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. View quote
Kurt Masur
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page. View quote
Kathleen Battle
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. View quote
Lukas Foss