Danielle de Niese Quotes

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

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

I love stuff like Mozart.

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

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.

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

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.

When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.

I like songs to mean something as well as sound good, and Paul Simon is a maestro. While Art Garfunkel was a voice and moved on to other things Simon remained the genius lyricist and composer.