The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adams, Meredith Monk and David Lang) to fill in what Mozart left out,
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Related But Mozart has a whole different set of challenges. Mozart requires a particular sense of sound, and... GEORGE HANSON The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. WOLFGANG HILDESHEIMER I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice as to how to compose a... ISAAC ASIMOV It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better,... MACKENZIE ASTIN Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. FRAN LEBOWITZ People are so familiar with Mozart. They have been raised listening to it (his music) but didn't rea... JEFF KLUBALL No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Bud... HENRY MILLER Mozart never watched Baby Mozart , and Einstein never watched Baby Einstein , ... We're subject to t... SHIFRIN Mozart never watched Baby Mozart , and Einstein never watched Baby Einstein . We're subject to the d... DON SHIFRIN When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were gre... DAVE BRUBECK One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though ... OSWALD SPENGLER Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man wh... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven... KAREN DECROW In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent ... MAURICE BARING Mozart is sweet sunshine. ANTONIN DVORAK Mozart is back big time. ILSE BLANK Mozart is my first strength. DANIELLE DE NIESE ADAMS asked us what we needed and since we had been borrowing other emergency response vehicles from... MAURICE MORALES I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for stri... ARNOLD SCHOENBERG I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i... ANNE STEVENSON This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz an... HERB ALPERT She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING He said the only thing he'd allow is Mozart. FRANK ZAITSHIK Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the poi... MOZART If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.. MOZART From Mozart I learned to say important things in a conversational way. Conversation with Busoni GEORGE BERNARD SHAW This is the only piece by Mozart written in this tune. It is his personal confession. JUN KANNO Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed... TWYLA THARP I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt li... IGOR STRAVINSKY As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gi... JIM COLEMAN Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven. WENDY WASSERSTEIN Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. ANDRE RIEU What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels... MARGARET ATWOOD Please, no Mozart. This festival has nothing to do with him. The whole world is going crazy about Mo... FOLKERT UHDE Your heart new to the world, and full of warmth and sensibility, receives its first impressions with... MATTHEW LEWIS I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. FELICITY KENDAL The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and ... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT You look at Beethoven's sketch book and he's working things out, trying this, trying that. Mozart di... GEORGE HANSON What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and... WALTER BECKER Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c... JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ... JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th... JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti... JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, i... JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ... JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W... JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark. JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good... JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,... JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c... JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little... JOHN GREEN I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time ... JOHN GREEN My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. JOHN GREEN I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I... JOHN GREEN He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice... JOHN GREEN Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa. JOHN GREEN I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for. JOHN GREEN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or no... JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward conscio... JOHN GREEN Even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncrea... JOHN GREEN …iubirea mea, nu-ți pot spune cât de recunoscătoare sunt pentru mica noastră infinitate. N-aș... JOHN GREEN I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt li... IGOR STRAVINSKY Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN We are adding 5,000 to 10,000 rooms here in the next three to four years. Somebody has to fill these... ABE PIZAM Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. ANNE BRADSTREET I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music, ANDY GARCIA There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. CAMILLE PAGLIA Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't w... ERNEST NEWMAN [? Dave Brubeck and Marian McPartland, two masters of the jazz piano, Friday.] It's always an event,... DAVE BRUBECK We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and ... PAUL DESMOND Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. ISAAC STERN We've tried to combine ongoing things, such as the annual Scholarship Concert, into the Mozart conce... ROBERT WALZEL I'd like see an ad with somebody listening to Mozart and reading Milton or Shakespeare. CHARLES MOSKOS That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you. H.L. DAVIS What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. VANESSA MAE The language of the pieces from this year is totally different than before. His earlier works stand ... CORBIN JOHNSTON My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-di... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out ... LUKAS FOSS In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... People marvel at the genius of Mozart because he supposedly wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at... CHARLES MARTIN I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. KIANA TOM We're already getting excited about that. And seeing that it's the Mozart year, it is only fitting. SHYLA NELSON Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I coul... CARY FUKUNAGA Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but... TWYLA THARP I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart. EDDIE MARSAN If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. VANESSA CARLTON I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it. SIMON RATTLE My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things... TOM BROKAW Some infinities are bigger than other infinities." -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN
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