It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth

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.
Peter Shaffer

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
Neville Marriner

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
Colin R. Davis

Mozart is sweet sunshine.
Antonin Dvorak

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
Emanuel Ax

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

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.
Lukas Foss

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

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
Steve Lacy

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
George Shearing

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Alfred Einstein

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Camille Paglia

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.
Lukas Foss

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
Lukas Foss

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Rebecca West

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?
Robert Morris

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth