Quotes About Music

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

Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

Richard Landis is a modern-day Mozart, almost.

Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.

The worst parts of playing a festival are walking. Not a fan of walking. The mud, I can handle. But the walking? No, ta.

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.