Jim Steinman Quotes

Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in the broadest sense.

I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

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

I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical.

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

Will.i.am is the genius of the group. He's the one that keeps everything together creatively.

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them had. Absolute geniuses. You can recognize their harmonies among thousands.

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

George Saunders is a complete genius.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

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

Einstein was very attracted to Mozart. There's a mathematical, classical structure to the music, and I think he identified with that very strongly. I think there also is a connection between being a genius and a polymath.

David Fincher is a genius.

On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

Taylor Swift is just dope. She is an ill songwriter.