It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for two years.
Source: Quoted in N. Shapiro, An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music
-- Tom Lehrer, (Apr 9 1928-____), US parody/folk singer, songwriter, mathematician; He was a professor of Math at Harvard who wrote many satirical tunes (Poisioning Pigeons) in the 1960s; appeared on That Was The Week That Was.