I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. — 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 those people--and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!...A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre,… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share
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
