#mozart

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

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

— Vanessa Mae

#beethoven #i #jackson #like #michael

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#elite #everybody #his #mozart #music

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#adaptable #although #had #him #man

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it! ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#cannot #deny #directly #i #i am

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#conjunction #explain #hear #i #i am

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#emily #fervently #gods #gotten #herman

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

#mozart #music #shows #soul #x-ray

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

#bach #beethoven #day #down #hand