Top 390 Mozart Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
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.
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.
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.
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!.
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
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.
My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
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.
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.
Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu's original programming and not just 'Mozart in the Jungle,' which everyone is watching, apparently.
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.
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.
There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.
Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.
The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.
Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.
My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh Symphony.'
Mozart's House' had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.
In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch of lightness, which is the most difficult thing to do.
Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.
I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.
The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.
Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.
Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.
As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
My iPhone has become rather precious because of all my music on it; every night, we set it for 20 minutes before we fall asleep to listen to some Mozart.
While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
