Mozart Quotes
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Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
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In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
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As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.
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Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television.
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Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."
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We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.
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Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
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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.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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Even in his heyday, when he was being commissioned to write pieces, Mozart was a starving artist. He partied, he blew his money, he drank it away. I'm sure it parallels a lot of bands and musicians. He lived it up and didn't set anything aside and he died poor. That's rock 'n' roll.
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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.
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Mozart's House' had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.
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One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
