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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
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.
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.
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms.
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.