“I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!”
Arnold Schoenberg
“No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.”
Henry Miller
“An interesting note is that one of the reasons why Mozart wrote several pieces for two people is because he wrote them to play with his sister.”
Carlyn Morenus
“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”
Camille Paglia
“Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.”
Wendy Wasserstein
“Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.”
Vanessa Mae
“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”
James Brown
