Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. ~ Allan Bloom

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another. ~ Claudio Arrau

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the red ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Moz…

There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.

Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters;united with it,she is the mother of the arts and the source of its marvels.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.