#mozart

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bach #beethoven #i #jane #jane austen

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

#his #how #just #know #lifetime

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

#combined #dramatic #else #ideas #me

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#career #classical #college #day #every

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #each #freshmen #give #golf

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#already #been #consider #dead #had

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#beethoven #i #jackson #like #michael

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#his #mention #mozart #music #opera

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#brahms #debussy #different #different way #feeling

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#female #jack #mozart