"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 oran..."
- Rick Riordan
"Mozart,” Julie says in a bitter chuckle, staring at the speaker. “It’s supposed to be the pinnacle of art, right? This transcendent human achievement? And we use it for background noise in bathrooms. ..."
- Isaac Marion
"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 repu..."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"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
"Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.''No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't heavy. 'It's clever, it looks like busy Mozart.''What?''I . . .' Thaniel sighed. 'I..."
- Natasha Pulley
"Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civiliza..."
- Susan Sontag
"Jacques wants a pancake shaped like Mozart's Symphony No. 40! In G minor!"
- Michelle Cuevas
"If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.."
"In 1829 Rossini was at an age which has often proven critical in the lives of musicians, painters and writers. Lapses into silence far more complete than Rossini's, creative failures, suicides, and un..."
- Richard Osborne
"Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness."
- Lily Koppel