Mozart's music represents neither the prolonged sigh of faith that characterizes so much of the music written before his time, nor the stormy idealism which cloaks most music after him. Rather he is that mercurial balance of the skeptic and the humane. Like him, and in him, we can always discover new worlds. ~ Joseph Solman

What was evident was that Mozart was simply written down music already finished in his head. And music, finished as no music is ever finished. Displace one not…

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparallel…

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. ~ Peter Shaffer

'Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.'

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid h…