Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. ~ Frederic Chopin

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace. ~ Johannes Brahms

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. ~ Aaron Copland

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity. ~ Johannes Brahms

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of compositio…

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.