Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
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.
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
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.
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.
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.