Rose Macaulay Quotes

Mozart is my first strength.

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

I think J. S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets but also as good as it gets, period - as good as existence, reality, life, and the world.

I love Shostakovich. We were good friends.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.

When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and I have an appreciation that I didn't have when I was in my 20s.

Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch of lightness, which is the most difficult thing to do.

I don't want only young black people that listen to my music be able to appreciate it. I just want people to be able to appreciate it.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.