#mozart

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#bore #bores #extraordinary #extraordinary thing #him

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

#few #first #i #movement #mozart

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bed #i #i am #just #listening

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

— Robert Morris

#goes #heart #i #know #like

Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide. ↗

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

#men

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good! ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#because #better #cannot #dave #dave matthews

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. ↗

— Maurice Baring

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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#been #dead #had #mozart #sobering