Troubles

So I've been looking at a lot of articles and they all say that Mozart has had a very big influence, but the more I look the more I'm realizing that nobody can actually tell me what this influence was. Its appearing more and more that Mozart is more a presence than an actual influence. Some people may see this next statement as blasphemous, and it can be removed if Mrs. Jewitt or Ms. Swazey feel that its nessecary. In some ways, Mozart is a musical god. He is considered amazing, some people have called him an angel of music, and composers say their influence was Mozart, but they've never actually pulled directly from any of his styles for their own.
Here is an excerpt of the transcript of a conversation I had with a soundtrack composer from LA today. (I have removed his screenname in order to respect his privacy.)
meaghan (5:07:38 PM): hey are you super busy?
cody (5:07:53 PM): hey - finishing lunch
cody (5:07:57 PM): how are you?
meaghan (5:08:23 PM): pretty good. I'm doing this report for school and I was wondering if I could ask you like, 3 questions?
cody (5:08:29 PM): sure
meaghan (5:08:31 PM): if not no biggy.
cody (5:08:33 PM): shoot
meaghan (5:08:42 PM): ok we can do it later too, if thats better
cody (5:08:48 PM): now's ok
cody (5:08:55 PM): like 5 minutes or so good?
meaghan (5:09:33 PM): yeah thats fine. so as a composer, would you say that Mozart's music has had any specific influence on your composing style?
cody (5:10:24 PM): hmm....not too much, i would say no specific influence for me personally
meaghan (5:11:08 PM): Do you know of anybody else that his music has directly effected? I mean naturally its diferent as a soundtrack composer rather than straight classical, but just asking hha.
cody (5:11:42 PM): i would say JS Bach has much more direct influence on today's composer

According to Mr. Westheimer Bach has had more of an influence. I didn't have as many questions prepared as I would have liked, but I got arather direct answer nonetheless. Now I feel that I must look into Bach's influence.