“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… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend,… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
When I am at peace with myself . . . then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak- that I think about it all day long- that I like… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“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… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand,… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize his compassion, and His tenderness… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . . — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
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