Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes on History
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I care very little for Salzburg and not at all for the archbishop: I shit on both of them.
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As with all great artists, Mozart expressed not only the soul, the taste and the aroma of his epoch, but also the spiritual world of man-man for all ages, in all the complexity of his desires, his struggles and ambivalence. Some of us, who only identify in Mozart a certain aristocratic refinement, may find these words strange. Often we meet with a condescending attitude towards him, to his music, reminiscent of chiming bells in a music box! ...'It's very nice, but not for me' say such people, 'give me passion - Beethoven, Brahms, tragic, monumental...' Such comments only reveal one thing, these people don't know Mozart.
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Mozart did not die too early, but rather too late. ~ Glenn Gould
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For one moment in the history of music all opposites were reconciled; all tensions resolved; that luminous moment was Mozart. ~ Phil Goulding
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The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. ~ Richard Wagner