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Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

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.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

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.

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.