9 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes on Balance

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quotes on balance

20. Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

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23. Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

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24. It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

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28. Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

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

55. Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do. ~ Andre Gide

59. In Mozart's music, all intensity are crystallized in the clearest, the most beautifully balanced and proportioned, and altogether flawless musical forms. ~ Phil Goulding

61. Mozart never did too little and never too much; he always attains but never exceeds his goal. ~ Franz Grillparzer

85. 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