If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
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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.
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
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.
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.
Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.