Mozart Quotes
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As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.
Steve Reich
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Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
Isaac Stern
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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
Kailash Kher
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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.
Bill Conti
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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."
James Keller
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Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
Frederic Chopin
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
Albert Einstein
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We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.
Grace Chatto
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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.
Alicia Keys
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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.
Kathleen Battle
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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
