#oz

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

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 think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. ↗

— Nate Silver

#i #i think #kind #market #polling

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argue #book #concern #could #does

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#almost #art #beauty #bourgeois #century

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#different #different person #face #frozen #i

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. ↗