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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Rick Riordan
“Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.”
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

Susan Sontag
“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don鈥檛 redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
Susan Sontag

Marie Lu
“I am going to tell you a story you already know. But listen carefully, because within it is one you have never heard before.”
Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

Oswald Spengler
“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be 鈥� though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain 鈥� because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality

Anton Sammut
“The twins spend their second day in Paris at the Louvre.

''... Really great geniuses, eh Fritz? One could barely call them human beings.''

'' As a matter of fact, I don't think they were... just superior beings from some other planet... perhaps from the same one that gave us Mozart and Plato, for it's impossible that a mere human being create such monumental works.''

''Wonderful...”
Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people--and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!...A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not--but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes--bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Chuck Palahniuk
“You said how Michelangelo was a manic-depressive who portrayed himself as a flayed martyr in his painting. Henri Matisse gave up being a lawyer because of appendicitis. Robert Schumann only began composing after his right hand became paralyzed and ended his career as a concert pianist. (...) You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. Mozart and his uremia. Paul Klee and the scleroderma that shrank his joints and muscles to death. Frida Kahlo and the spina bifida that covered her legs with bleeding sores. Lord Byron and his clubfoot. The Bronte sisters and their tuberculosis. Mark Rothko and his suicide. Flannery O鈥機onnor and her lupus. Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

鈥淎ccording to Thomas Mann,鈥� Peter said, 鈥溾€楪reat artists are great invalids.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

Peter Shaffer
“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”
Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

Robert Greenberg
“Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.”
Robert Greenberg, How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

Jarod Kintz
“I'd fight a gang of wolves if they attacked my ducks. Like Mozart, you can call me Wolfgang.”
Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Emil M. Cioran
“Le Requiem de Mozart. Un souffle de l'au-del脿 y plane. Comment croire, apr猫s une pareille audition, que l'univers n'ait aucun sens? Il faut qu'il en ait un. Que tant de sublime se r茅solve dans le n茅ant, le coeur, aussi bien que l'entendement, refuse de l'admettre. Quelque chose doit exister quelque part, un brin de r茅alit茅 doit 锚tre contenu dans ce monde. Ivresse du possible qui rach猫te la vie. Craignons le retombement et le retour du savoir amer...”
Emil Cioran, Notebooks

Robert Greenberg
“When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.”
Robert Greenberg, How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

Jarod Kintz
“To help my ducks improve their swimming ability, I remixed Mozart with whale sounds, and I pulse the music through their SplashTub. Snatch your tickets now, because they鈥檙e laced with catnip and going fast.”
Jarod Kintz, BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight

Jarod Kintz
“I'll bet playing classical music to plants would make them grow taller. When my ducks listen to Mozart, they become more cultured and have done things like taken up golf.”
Jarod Kintz, To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Jarod Kintz
“People ask me, "Jarod, why haven't you won an NFL Championship by now?" My answer is the same. I reply, "I may not be Mozart, or I might be, who's to say, but if you put me in an elevator, I'm going to make music that fills the space completely, like duck quacks in a can.”
Jarod Kintz, Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Jarod Kintz
“People always ask me, "Jarod, why haven't you won an NFL Championship by now?" My answer is the same. I reply, "I may not be Mozart, or I might be, who's to say, but if you put me in an elevator, I'm going to make music that fills the space completely, like duck quacks in a can.”
Jarod Kintz, Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Jarod Kintz
“I'll be your Mozart, if you'll be my gang of wolves. If you can do that, I'll also be your Wolfgang鈥攂ut you鈥檝e got to promise to not attack my ducks.”
Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Donovan Bixley
“Despite being one of the greatest musical geniuses, he disdained high-brow musical jargon. Instead music was a living thing, something to be pranced about the room, or taken for a little stroll.”
Donovan Bixley, Faithfully Mozart. The fantastical world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Lyanda Lynn Haupt
“But in the bare practical outlines, we are two writers, sitting at our desks, with starlings on our shoulders”
Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Mozart's Starling

Lyanda Lynn Haupt
“While I wandered the dreamy quiet of St. Marx Friedhof, it was the Requiem that swirled through my head. But when I set my chestnut on the gray concrete that had to stand in for Star's tiny, forgotten grave, it was the wild, swirling cadenzas from A Musical Joke that filled my mind and heart. Even more than his poem, this flight of musical fancy was Mozart's truest elegy for his small friend, the commonest of birds who could never have known that he was joining with a musical genius in the highest purpose of creative life: to disturb us out of complacency; to show us the wild, imperfect, murmuring harmony of the world we inhabit; to draw our own lives into the song.”
Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Mozart's Starling

Jarod Kintz
“How to choose an orchard plant from the nursery: Bring a stereo, play some Mozart, and whichever one dances the liveliest, that's the one you take back home to meet your ducks. You could play Beethoven, but he was deaf, so his music is a little too Helen Kelleresque for my taste.”
Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Jarod Kintz
“A zebra is the piano of the animal kingdom, and now you can learn to play like Mozart on horseback. If I can coach my ducks to become World Dodgeball Champions, I can make your musical equestrian dreams a reality.”
Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Jarod Kintz
“Piano ducks swimming make noises like drowning saxophones. I taught them how to Mozart like powdered Michael Phelps on the bottom of a crushed box of cereal.”
Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

Josie  Ferguson
“Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are 鈥� hidden in that silence.”
Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

“Every single time I hear Mozart, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Beethoven-Symphony NO.5 in C Minor,
I remember those beautiful childhood memories of back home, around noon time.
Memories of my Sweet Barbados”
Charmaine J. Forde

Mike Ma
“Amadeus Mozart, Adolf Hitler, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were all born in Austria. Not very far from one another. How does a country produce these three men in just under two centuries time? Who will be the fourth and what may he contribute to the world? Judging by the time between each of their births, it seems we鈥檙e due for the next in line.”
Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

Tony Judt
“校 1787 褉芯褑褨, 胁懈褉褍褕懈胁褕懈 蟹 袙褨写薪褟 薪邪 蟹邪褏褨写 写芯 袩褉邪谐懈, 袦芯褑邪褉褌 锌懈褋邪胁, 褖芯 锌械褉械褌薪褍胁 褋褏褨写薪懈泄 泻芯褉写芯薪. 小褏褨写 褨 袟邪褏褨写, 袗蟹褨褟 褨 袆胁褉芯锌邪 蟹邪胁卸写懈 斜褍谢懈 褉芯蟹写褨谢械薪褨 褍 褋胁褨写芯屑芯褋褌褨 褖芯薪邪泄屑械薪褕械 褌邪泻 褋邪屑芯 褟泻 褨 蟹械屑谢褟 鈥� 泻芯褉写芯薪邪屑懈.”
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Dana Gioia
“Dante and Hopkins, Mozart and Palestrina, Michelangelo and El Greco, Bramante and Gaudi have brought more souls to God than all the preachers of Texas.”
Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

Dean Koontz
“Music鈥攇ood music, great music鈥攊s itself magical, its mysterious inspiration entwined with the mystery of all things. When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.”
Dean Koontz, The City

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