Quotes of: Mozart Keyword

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

John Cale

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Donald Byrd

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.

Lukas Foss

Count Orsini-Rosenberg: [about Mozart] A young man trying to impress beyond his abilities.

Amadeus

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

Anthony Hopkins

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Robert Morris

Jimmy: Hey, Shakespeare! How's it going? Joe Turner: Terrific. I'm building up a great collection of rejection slips. Jimmy: [as he prepares Turner's lunch order] Yeah, I know the feeling. I always wanted to be Escoffier. Joe Turner: Well, maybe it's...

Three Days of the Condor

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Brandon Boyd

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.

Andrew Denton

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.

Alexandra Stoddard

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

Leonard Slatkin

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

Leonard Slatkin

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

Leonard Slatkin

There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

Daniel Barenboim

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

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

Tony Randall

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Daniel Barenboim

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Esperanza Spalding

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Itzhak Perlman

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.

George Shearing