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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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
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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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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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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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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
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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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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.
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Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
