Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

What shall I play?

Mozart.

I'll find you the piece.

Mozart's the saddest musician in the world, but he's the best to dance to.

Why, how is it you are, uh, such a connoisseur in sadness, darling?

She isn't.

We

have JR with just a Mozart-level job of combining similar questions into one.

Well done.

I'm proud of me.

But hey, look, whatever makes you happy, EDM, disco, whatever, like as long as you're cool with it and it's to, has the right cadence for you and for, for the type of exercise you're doing.

Heck, I've been on the trampoline and listened to Mozart, believe it or not.

Like, it just depends on your mood or what you're trying to accomplish.

I, I think music is really very personal, and I think that depending on what you're trying to do, I wouldn't wanna listen to "Welcome to the Jungle" while I'm trying to do breathwork.

We took out-

Or, or you know, the way that, uh, I'd prefer to think of it more like after, uh, after Mozart, nobody wrote operas anymore.

He just killed opera, you know? That's, that's how it goes.

[laughs] Is that true?

... because he mastered the French, German, and Italian operas.

Oh.

Mozart, yeah.

He was just like, "Okay, I'm done."

He did not intend to.

When someone says, Jesus was just a great moral teacher, That's rather like saying, you know, Mozart wrote some rather pretty tunes.

Just say, well, yes, he did write some pretty tunes, but if that's all you can hear in his music, then you need to sit down and learn what those symphonies are really all about.

And saying Jesus is just a great moral teacher is a way of disinfecting him, of saying we can have him on our terms rather than on his terms.

And actually, Jesus is not easy to grasp if you do it like that.

That's like saying the only bit of the Mozart symphony that I'm actually going to think about is the bit that I can whistle on my way home from the pub.

Well, best of luck.

Strobel's investigation also drew him back to the historical evidence he had first examined as an atheist.

There was not much truly spectacular about the course of his life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters, and he was not called upon to starve or to struggle to achieve the material rewards of his gifts.

He had not to pass through the conflicts which embittered the lives of Wagner or Berlioz, and he was never compelled to suffer like Mozart or Schubert.

There is no record of his ever humiliating himself or performing degrading chores for publishers in return for a wretched pittance.

He had wealth enough without compromising his art to keep the pot boiling.

I did your son a favor, not on your account, but only because I consider his talent deserves it.

To the end of his days, Franz Strauss remained a cantankerous individual.

Young Richard may not have exhibited the precocity of a Mozart or a Mendelssohn, but there could be no doubt that musical impulses stirred in the child.

He piled up a considerable quantity of juvenilia, beginning as a six-year-old.

To return to an old theme, even though we live in an image-drenched culture, this is a good reminder that language is made out of words.

And it might sound like over-reading to you to say that a full rhyme brings peace, but I'm reminded of the story of Mozart's children playing a series of unfinished scales in order to taunt their father, who would eventually have to go to the piano and finish them.

Poetry isn't just a series of images.

It's rhythmic and it's metric, and we crave the closure of a good rhyme at the end of a poem.

But hey, look, whatever makes you happy, EDM, disco, whatever, like as long as you're cool with it and it's to, has the right cadence for you and for, for the type of exercise you're doing.

Heck, I've been on the trampoline and listened to Mozart, believe it or not.

Like, it just depends on your mood or what you're trying to accomplish.

I, I think music is really very personal, and I think that depending on what you're trying to do, I wouldn't wanna listen to "Welcome to the Jungle" while I'm trying to do breathwork.

Well, all really good men are artists too, artists in fighting, and Stanislaus was one of the cleverest and strongest artists of the lot.

He began early, just as the musician Mozart did, just as the painter Raphael did.

And he studied hard at his art, just as all great artists have done.

He began by saying his prayers well, not mere lip prayers, but heart prayers.