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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.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

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

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

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

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.