It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.
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.
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
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 was very much an arrested adolescent.
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 they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.