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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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 is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Mozart is my first strength.
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!
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.