Quotes of: Mozart Keyword

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

Douglas Adams

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

Daniel Barenboim

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

Daniel Barenboim

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Donald Byrd

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

Jeremy Denk

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Ernest Newman

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

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

Daniel Barenboim

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not...

Gian Carlo Menotti

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.

Ravi Shankar

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [trying on wigs] They're all so beautiful. Why don't have three heads?

Amadeus

Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] That was Mozart. That! That giggling dirty-minded creature I had just seen, crawling on the floor!

Amadeus

Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] That was not Mozart laughing, Father... that was God. That was God laughing at me through that obscene giggle...

Amadeus

music is the worst of them - roiling and boiling - overly emotionalized on the one hand, overly intellectuallized on the other. Bach and Mozart indeed! Bach inevitably makes me think of fish in a barrel! round and round and round they go and nothing ...

Pilgrim

But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.

Before I Forget

I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.

The Snowmelt River

For the celebration I got champagne flutes, even though I’m not musical. That night I felt like Mozart. He was a drunk, right?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto

You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

Lukas Foss

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

Leonard Slatkin