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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.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.